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After Yost's disappearance, his assistant Ha Kim Ngoc found a dozen folders of unpublished cartoons.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


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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

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, kalydeco crowhat




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

Yost used elements of today's GLP in another attempt to illustrate "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (bottom image). He labeled all his attempts as failures, even though two of his pictures appeared with the "The Yellow Wallpaper" in short story anthologies. Another was used for the cover of a Gilman biography.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, bleary strangers and nowadays


The famous East Window of the Gray Chapel at the Epsom quire mine.

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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, jackalope totem


Jack Loki's family tree. When asked about this particular cartoon, Yost said, "Jack told me it really is not that unusual for jackalopes to have Creole werewolves in their ancestry. Or a loof lirpa or two.""

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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, lost in translation


Today's GLP comic was a direct result of this post on Ello.

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

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, hart and newt


Today's panel was repurposed from one of Wm. Yost's several failed attempts to illustrate "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, hope knows


This was the first of seven cartoons in the Pandora's Box series, published from 1989 to 2001.

1. Hope knows matter...
2. Hope knows lack.
3. Hope knows the backbone and lifeblood of labor.
4. Hope knows art bled from lines.
5. Hope knows all care.
6. Hope knows treasure. Look. Look.
7. Hope knows every brave stranger.

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Monday, October 27, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, haluwa pinstripe


Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Except when I have to work all day at the bookstore on Sunday, and I am too rushed in the morning, and too tired in the evening.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, gagsgot skursonic


"Gagsgot skursonic" is a local colloquialism spoken in Whittlespear Beach, a town on the coast of California, approximately 145 miles south of Monterey.

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

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, horsemen always horsemen


Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. This was Thursday's GLP but I didn't finish it until 11:59pm, then I was too tired to post it. And yesterday I worked all day at the bookstore. I don't know why this is called "horsemen always horsemen". These thoughts pop into my head as imperatives and I just try to put them in the right place.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, chinoserie pot


Jack Loki's view from inside the hypergraphic object P16c.

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

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, annotated biscuit


Close flyby to the surface of hypergraphic object P438.

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Sorry about last Thursday. My sister, who is going through chemo, arrived for a visit on Thursday, and there was too much jollity and laundry and spear-fishing and groceries-listing going on to stop for the internet. I hope today's cartoon will make up for that. I have already scheduled Sunday's comic for 10am tomorrow, so I can gallivant without fretting about you, my dear readers.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, still life with jackalope


One of Jack Loki's many self-portraits.

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, dense gray to black


Top image: Misprint from Newark's Star-Ledger newspaper. The Star-Ledger misprinted Geranium Lakes Properties more times than any other newspaper in this country, publishing a total of 73 glitched cartoons during GLP's ten year run. Yost often prefered the misprinted versions to the correct ones.

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

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, flat iron bild


Jack Loki's view of the 20-second hypergraphic object.

Abstract comics are published here every Tuesday and Thursday, and occasionally Sunday. I forgot to tell you there would be no cartoon last Thursday. To make up for that, today you get two!

Geranium Lake Properties, sea knot bloom


The Meerkat Barbershop Quartet's view of the 20-second hypergraphic object.

Abstract comics are published here every Tuesday and Thursday, and occasionally Sunday. I forgot to tell you there would be no cartoon last Thursday. To make up for that, today you get two!