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with unique sensitivity and grace, unveiling through drawings all that is beautiful and worthy in the world". Noted by visual artist Arina
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tool. In this context, Rusz and Eugen Taru were among those who still produced comics able to reach the general public (a category which also included, according to one assessment,
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