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# During Quarantine, an Artist Learns That Her Art “Has a Place in This World”
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/kanako-abe-art-during-quarantine/
- Published: 2021-02-12T20:46:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:21:58.000Z
- Description: A comic artist speaks to artists across the world to see how they — and their practices — have been holding up.
- Author: Susan Coyne
- Tags: Comics, COVID-19, Seattle, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

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