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\u201cBoingy Baxter,\u201d Motor City Comics<\/em> No. 1. \u00a9 1969 R. Crumb.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cR. Crumb: Lines Drawn on Paper\u201d<\/a> is on view at the Society of Illustrators, New York, through April 30.<\/p>\n

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