A page of “So Close” by Marek Bennett from the new food-themed anthology Sprouts by the Trees & Hills Comics Group:

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Transcript of comic:

Into the last of the Soviet housing projects – middle-class Slovak suburbs of the 1980s – each house like a little chunk of apartment tower –

And here it’s the tiny gaps between the houses that draw my attention… [growing in the gaps: apples, grapes, raspberries, cabbage. Pears?]

Even the bigger yards packed full of onion, cabbage, poppy.