Town Sees Its Revival in Art – School for Cartoonists Is Key to Vermont Community’s Plans

The changing face of this gritty hamlet appears in the form of a glossy poster mounted under a tattered green awning in the Main Street window of the Colodny’s Surprise Department Store, which closed more than a decade ago.

Pen-and-ink illustrations of a woman smoking a cigarette, a baby with a sailor’s hat and a menacing-looking robot adorn the advertisement for the future home of the Center for Cartoon Studies. "All Types Welcome," it reads. "Opening Fall 2005."

By Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Staff Writer

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