Two from Qoheleth

Top: The wisdom of incoherence
Bottom: The philosophy of the cliché

Qoheleth is a series of random-appearing panels within GLP, much like the Fifty-Cent Trip or the Yellow Wallpaper series. Wikipedia will tell you that Qoheleth is the author of Ecclesiastes. Yost once let slip that “Qoheleth” was an alias for a real person in his life. Gralie Bohe used it for the middle name of a cat, John Q. Public, in her novel, The Boy in the Yellow Leatherette Portmanteau. (This was the post for Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. I have problems with time in the Twenty-First Century.)

The difficulty of crossing a field

Asemic comics are still published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, even though lately I have been missing my Saturday post and posting it on Monday.

An alliance of outsiders who rule over a wide-spread otherness

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I missed last Saturday's cartoon, so I am posting it today.

Luristan bronze

Today’s comic steals from a book on the shelf above my computer monitor, jammed between Shocking Beauty by Thomas Hobbs and Where the Buffaloes Begin by Olaf Baker, illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Neither of those books is imaginary. Forty-Four Insanely Fun DIY Craft Projects from Luristan Bronzes, From the Dang Simple to the Kinda Hard, written by Amy Lou Biehl and illustrated by Celestina Zeballos, comes out of my library of imaginary books. It was published in 1973 by Ten Speed Press in Berkley, California. Soft cover, with 160 pages.

Yost’s copy is signed by Celestina Zeballos with the inscription “For Wm. Thanks for the absurd pedigree full of rain. Celestina Z.”

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

The wife of one entirely unknown

The glyphs in this panel were made from a font called Asemicism, created by Tony Burhouse/Gene Mutation. I can't leave well enough alone, of course, so the letters are smooshed and flipped any which way. My interpretation of today's comic appears below, but before you read it, I would be pleased if you take some time to indulge your own imagination. There is no correct interpretation of my asemic work. If you prefer to ignore my interpretation in favor of your own, that's totally okay.


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What cartoon hero doesn't have a much-imperiled girlfriend? Jack Loki's significant other is dainty, sweet-tempered, ridge-backed, clodhopping Alice Aroumbeyski, portrayed here as a saucy Martian pin-up girl. Or boy. Or it. Alice was once described, with solemn sagacity, by her four-year-old cousin Sophia, as a "cobra-zebra with stickin'-up hair and bad neck".

“..the centaur held up a cluster of tiny monkeys…”

Sorry, I somehow forgot to post this last Saturday!

My Valentine for You

The Misapprehension of Fortune

The title might be explained by the fact that I have been watching Alan Watts videos on Youtube.

Twist the sinews

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, except I am putting up Tuesday's cartoon today for the Chinese New Year.

A glimpse of the incessant worldsilver

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

Finding significance in the failure of words

Today’s GLP comic is all me. After I posted Tuesday’s panel, I received encouragement from both GLP historian Michael Veerduer, and Yost’s former assistant, Ha Kim Ngoc, to occasionally publish as myself under the Geranium Lake Properties title. I think it is a perfectly normal thing to get advice from fictional people. As soon as I learned to read, I started absorbing all sorts of life lessons from mythical beings, from Bartholomew Cubbins to Cinderella to Spider-Man to Dear Abby to Jesus. For my understanding of Wm. Yost, I have relied heavily on the novel The Boy in the Yellow Leatherette Portmanteau by Gralie Bohe, a fictional piece of fiction by a fictional author. (The novel is set in the fictional town of Whittlespear Beach, California. California is not fictional, it just seems that way.)

In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of knives, bats and clubs

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