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Article: Punk comix.(Fantagraphics Books Inc.)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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In Seattle, there's a neighborhood called Georgetown that the mysterious forces of Real Estate and Art have conspired to label the Next Big Thing, though right now it's still humble, a mix of singlefamily houses and abandoned factories slowly being repurposed into galleries and condos. There's pretty much one block of commercial interest--a cozy coffee shop, a coming-soon sign for a button-making store, and a record store (literally, it sells vinyl) that shares space with a bookstore called Fantagraphics Books, owned by the graphic novel publisher of the same name. Every single title that Fantagraphics has in print is on sale at the store. Works by Robert Crumb and Chris ...