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art Meet Trent, a talented artist with autism who takes requests of things to draw Jennifer Sandlin

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industrial design Cool book of old school car renderings Bob Knetzger

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happy mutants After more than a decade, Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg's YA classics The PLAIN Janes are back! Cory Doctorow

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

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100-year-old blackboard drawings found in Oklahoma school Laura Hudson

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