Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, the reason for aviation


I worked the last of my extra holiday hours and I was too tired to post a GLP cartoon on Tuesday, but it's 4 am on Wednesday here, so that's almost Tuesday. Today's yellow wallpaper cartoons, and last Sunday's, and this coming Thursday's, were never seen in the newspapers that published Geranium Lake Properties. They first appeared on Ha Kim Ngoc's website, the late lamented GLP Compendium, which shut down in 2004 under threat of legal action from Sindacato Nuovo Secolo Media, SNSM, popularly known as Snism. More recently, they were published in Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper, a limited edition book of which five copies were sold before sales were stopped by a lawsuit.

After Yost's disappearance, his assistant Ha Kim Ngoc found a dozen folders of unpublished cartoons. Most of these, nearly 200 drawings, were Yost's attempts to illustrate "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The folders were numbered, and we are finishing off this year, and starting the next, with six cartoons from folder number four.

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, grace from the ascended


Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. I had no time to post yesterday's cartoon, so here it is a day late.

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, "The Ballad of Four Heads", second verse


Continuing with our Christmas carol theme, we have this panel by guest artist Quinto K. Thelsear. The cartoon draws its title from the song "Die Ballade von vier langen Heads", a German minnelied which borrowed its tune from a 13th century carol, "Tempus adest floridum", which was also used as the tune for "Good King Wenceslas".

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, domestic spirits


© lcmt 2014

Similiar to his obsession with "The Yellow Wallpaper", Yost tried many times to depict Scrooge's door knocker in A Christmas Carol, at the moment when Jacob Marley's ghost makes its first appearance. During several of his attempts, something else manifested on Yost's drawing board. For the next few days of GLP, in the spirit of the season, we will enjoy some examples of those manifestations.


Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, UPA, 1962, songs: Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, director: Abe Levitow

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, the great main bones egress


Escaping hypographic object HS1.990SV, nicknamed "Bluebird".

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014