{"id":4175,"date":"2012-05-02T12:29:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T19:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2012-05-02T12:33:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T19:33:42","slug":"sprouts-preview-the-world-seed-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=4175","title":{"rendered":"SPROUTS Preview: &#8220;The World Seed Situation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A page of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The World Seed Situation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Bill Tulp, from <a href=\"http:\/\/treesandhills.storenvy.com\/products\/319494-sprouts-t-h-anthology-11-pre-order\">the new food-themed anthology <em>Sprouts<\/em><\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/treesandhills.org\">Trees &amp; Hills Comics Group<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/treesandhills.storenvy.com\/products\/319494-sprouts-t-h-anthology-11-pre-order\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/treesandhills.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tulpworldseedsitupg1.gif\" alt=\"&quot;The World Seed Situation&quot; page 1 by Bill Tulp\" width=\"495\" height=\"671\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/treesandhills.storenvy.com\/products\/319494-sprouts-t-h-anthology-11-pre-order\">Pre-order our new food-themed anthology <em>Sprouts<\/em><\/a> by May 13<\/strong> to get it <strong>signed, sketched, and shipped for free!<\/strong> Pre-orders increase our first print run \u00e2\u20ac\u201c get your copy now and help us cut down on trips to the printer! <strong>Tell your friends!<\/strong> (seriously, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big help)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript of comic:<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How do folks. My name\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rudy &amp; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a bitterroot rutabaga. My family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been round these here parts well nigh 60 years. But now there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only a few of us left, livin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in Mrs. McGruder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back yard. People stopped plantin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 us old heirloom varieties &amp; we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re bein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 replaced by hybrids.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now, how did we get in this here sit-u-ation? Well, it all started a long time back. The glaciers were recedin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 along the equator &amp; ancestors of mine started growin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now the Mediterranean. We weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t full-blown rutabagas yit, but we were evolvin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that-a-way!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A page of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The World Seed Situation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Bill Tulp, from the new food-themed anthology Sprouts by the Trees &amp; Hills Comics Group: Pre-order our new food-themed anthology Sprouts by May 13 to get it signed, sketched, and shipped for free! 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