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A Single Match
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A Single Match HC |
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In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology,...
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Abandoned Cars
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Abandoned Cars HC (Tim Lane) |
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Abandoned Cars is Tim Lane's first collection of graphic short stories, noir-ish narratives that are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate its pages. Lane's...
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Approximate Continuum Comics
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Approximate Continuum Comics |
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Approximate Continuum Comics brings American readers the first portion of the 'Trondheim autobio trilogy' that also comprises the Eisner-nominated 'At Loose Ends' meditation serialized in Mome (which will be released as a graphic novel in 2012) and...
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Aya
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Aya HC |
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An Eisner Award-nominee! Meet the studious and clear-sighted Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a breezy and wryly funny account of the desire for joy and freedom, and of the simple...
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Aya Of Yop City HC |
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The original Drawn & Quarterly volume of Aya debuted last year to much critical acclaim, receiving a Quill Award-nomination and praise for its accessibility and for the rare portrait of a warm, vibrant Africa it presents. This continuation of the...
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Aya The Secrets Come Out HC |
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Secrets and desires cast long shadows in the third volume of Abouet and Oubrerie's highly regarded series about life in the Ivory Coast of the 1970s. It's a world of shifting values, where issues like arranged marriage and gay love have Aya and her...
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Bigfoot
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Bigfoot HC |
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Jimmy is a teenager in a crummy little town. He's got a lousy best friend, a porn habit, and an uncle whose miserable existence is the embodiment of life stalled in its tracks. He's also got a tender soul, a pure-hearted crush, and the makings of a...
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Chester Brown
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Louis Riel A Comic Strip Biography (New Ptg) |
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Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the...
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Paying For It HC |
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Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics - prostitution. Paying For It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work - from the...
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Crumb
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Complete Crumb Comics vol. 7 |
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By R. Crumb 144 pages, b/w with 16 pages of full-color, 8 1/2' x 11' $19.99 Paperback Back in print after a several-year absence, and with Crumb's popularity ever-rising, the seventh volume of The Complete Crumb Comics spotlights Crumb's work...
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Complete Crumb Comics vol. 12 |
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Back in print after a several-year absence, the twelfth volume of CCC spotlights Crumb's first collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar, which appeared in Pekar's magazine American splendor. This collection also includes a skeptical report-in-comics...
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Dave McKean
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Celluloid HC |
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Dave McKean's first original graphic novel since his landmark book Cages brings to bear the astonishing range of illustrative and storytelling skills that have served him so well on his collaborations with Neil Gaiman and elsewhere. Celluloid is a...
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Doucet, Julie
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Drunken Dream & Other Stories
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Drunken Dream & Other Stories HC |
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A decades-spanning collection from the 'founding mother' of modern sho-jo manga. Fantagraphics Books' first volume of manga is a collection of short stories by one of Japan's most influential and critically lauded comics innovators.
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Eden
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Eden |
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Argentinean cartoonist Pablo Holmberg creates a bucolic, medieval folktale in Eden, a beautifully drawn, whimsical collection of comic strips. Follow a king as he converses with the moon, a star as it is born, and many more in four-panel strips that...
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Exit Wounds
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Exit Wounds (Rutu Modan) |
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An Eisner Award-nominee! In modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins...
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Forsythe, Matthew
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Jinchalo (Matthew Forsythe) (Ca. 14. februar 2012) |
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Jinchalo is Korean for 'Really?' and that question is at the heart of this book. A companion to Ojingogo, Jinchalo stars the same little girl as its heroine. When the mischevious shapeshifter Jinchalo hatches from a mysterious egg, he starts our...
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Ojingogo (Matthew Forsythe) |
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Nominated for 2 Eisner Awards for best web comic, winner of an Expozine award, and hailed by the Montreal Mirror, Matthew Forsythe's Ojingogo quickly sold out of its first printing and went on to be chosen for numerous 'Best of 2008' lists. The...
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Isle Of 100000 Graves
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Isle Of 100000 Graves HC |
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Five years ago, little Gwenny's father found, a map inside a bottle with instructions on how to reach the mysterious (and titular) Isle of 100,000 Graves and its legendary treasures - and then he vanished. Now Gwenny, having stumbled across another...
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Jamilti & Other Stories
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Jamilti & Other Stories HC (Rutu Modan) |
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Jamilti and Other Stories is the eagerly-anticipated follow-up to Exit Wounds, and it collects Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan's short works, written and drawn over the past 5 years, that lead the reader through unexpected turns of plot and unusual...
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Littlest Pirate King
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Littlest Pirate King HC |
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For decades they have roamed the seas, this shipload of undead pirates. They are desperate to die, but every time they try to dash their ship to splinters and end their miserable existence, a malevolent God scoops them out of danger. Until one day,...
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Lucky
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Lucky HC |
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Gabrielle Bell fascinatingly documents the mundane details of her below-minimum-wage, twentysomething existence in Brooklyn, New York, with a subtle humor. Her simple, unadorned drawing style, heavy narration, and biting wit chronicle transient...
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Matt, Joe
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Poor Bastard (Joe Matt) |
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This aptly-titled book collects for the first time Joe Matt's compelling and often hilarious storyline chronicling the crucial moments in his miserable life, beginning with his secret lust for his lover's best friend, and its ensuing devastating...
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Moomin
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Moomin Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip vol. 1 HC |
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Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The comic strip adventures of the Moomins were...
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Moomin Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip vol. 2 HC |
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In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. Moomin Book Two is an integral volume in D+Q's extensive series and is an...
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Moomin Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip vol. 3 HC |
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This third volume returns to Moominvalley, where its beloved inhabitants get tangled up in five new stories. Moomin falls in love with a damsel in distress, an unseasonably warm spell turns the valley into a tropical rain forest, and a flying saucer...
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Moomin Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip vol. 4 HC |
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Drawn & Quarterly's bestselling Moomin series, created by the legendary children's author Tove Jansson, is now in its fourth volume and is the winner of the Harvey Award and has been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards. Neil Gaiman calls it 'A lost...
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Moomin Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip vol. 5 HC |
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Drawn & Quarterly's bestselling Moomin series has won the Harvey Award and been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards. This volume features the final strips drawn by Tove Jansson and written by her brother Lars for the London Evening News, before Lars...
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Moomin Complete Lars Jansson Comic Strip vol. 6 HC |
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After the multifaceted Tove Jansson quit the daily grind of the newspaper comic strip, the reins were picked up by her younger brother, Lars, who, not being an artist, taught himself how to draw so that he could continue bringing the Moomin charm to...
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Mother Come Home
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Mother Come Home HC |
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Mother, Come Home is Paul Hornschemeier's piercing graphic-novel debut: it secured the cartoonist's place as one of his generation's most skillful and ambitious practitioners, and proved a harbinger of the subject matter that the artist would go on...
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Nilsen Anders
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Big Questions (Anders Nilsen) |
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A haunting postmodern fable, Big Questions is the magnum opus of Anders Nilsen, one of the brightest and most talented young cartoonists working today. This beautiful minimalist story, collected here for the first time, is the culmination of ten...
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Oil And Water
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Oil And Water HC |
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Written by Oregonian columnist Steve Duin and drawn by Eisner award-winning cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, Oil And Water follows 10 people into the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill. The contradictions of a disaster caused by the very...
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Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
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Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths |
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A landmark publishing event by one of Japan's most famous cartoonists. Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be...
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Pogo
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Raven
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Raven HC |
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In 2001 legendary rock 'n' roller Lou Reed immersed himself in the world of one of his spiritual forefathers, Edgar Allan Poe, to produce one of his most challenging and original works: POEtry, a cycle of songs directed by the legendary theater...
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Red Colored Elegy
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Red Colored Elegy HC |
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Uninvolved with the political movements of the 1960s, Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, but they're not revolutionaries; their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sleeping - together and at times with others. Both in...
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Red Snow
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Red Snow HC |
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Red Snow continues D+Q's groundbreaking exploration of the fascinating world of Gekiga in this collection of short stories drawn with great delicacy and told with subtle nuance by legendary Japanese artist Susumu Katsumata. The setting is the...
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Reunion
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Reunion |
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In the summer of 2009, Pascal Girard received an invitation to attend his ten-year high-school reunion. Initially dismissing the idea of attending, he quickly changes his mind when he receives an e-mail from Lucie Coté, the girl he had a huge crush...
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Rocky
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Rocky vol. 1: One & Only |
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Martin Kellerman is the Jane Austen of 21st century twenty-something urban European slackers. Firmly in the tradition of Fritz the Cat, Hate, and Clerks, Rocky is his mostly autobiographical daily strip detailing the rudely hilarious travails of a...
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Rocky vol. 2: Strictly Business |
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To start things off, Rocky manages to wheedle himself a free trip to New York as a reporter covering a gaming convention - a glutton for punishment, he looks up the girl he knocked up in ROCKY VOL. 1 and gets a BIG suprise! •
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Sublife
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Sublife vol. 1 (John Pham) |
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Two white supremacist brothers live in the midst of an 'ethnic' urban flood along with a dog they've trained as a weapon. A household made up of three renters, a landlord who never leaves her attic bedroom, and her son, who insists on wearing a sheet...
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Sublife vol. 2 (John Pham) |
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THE 2nd 'ISSUE' OF ONE OF 2008'S MOST ACCLAIMED DEBUTS The acclaimed graphic novel anthology continues with sublife, Volume 2. Creator John Pham enlarges the scope and expands the style of his series with an all-new collection of stories and strips....
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Too Soon Celebrity Portraits
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Too Soon Celebrity Portraits HC |
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With TOO SOON? Friedman finally (none 'too soon,' in fact) gets his due with this fat, beautiful collection that showcases his wide-ranging skills as a portraitist and caricaturist. TOO SOON? is evenly split between political celebrities and...
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Wandering Son
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Wandering Son vol. 1 HC |
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Shuichi and his friend Yoshino have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their 5th-grade classmates. But they share a secret that complicates a time of life that is awkward for anyone: Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and...
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Wandering Son vol. 2 HC |
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In the second volume of Shimura Takako's superb coming-of-age story, our transgendered protagonists, Shuichi and Yoshino, have entered the sixth grade. Both face tribulations and Shuichi in particular finds inner strength and courage he didn't know...
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What It Is
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What It Is HC |
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Lynda Barry is one of the pre-eminent cartoonists of the past generation, and in What It Is she demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. Bursting...
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Wheeler, Shannon
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I Thought You Would Be Funnier (Shannon Wheeler) |
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A new cartoon collection from the mind of Eisner Award-winning, Harvey nominated and current New Yorker cartoonist, Shannon Wheeler! It's the best-of-the-best of what's left on the cutting room floor from Wheeler's cartoon submissions to The New Yorker. Never seen in print before anywhere else!
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White Rapids
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White Rapids (Pascal Blanchet) |
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An Eisner Award-nominee! Founded in 1928 in an isolated region of Quebec forest, the northern Quebec town of White Rapids was constructed by the Shawinigan Water & Power Company to function as a fully-equipped, self-contained living community for...
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