Myxomycetous Humor

This one's for the slime molds. If you are a certain type of Mycetozoan, this is hilarious.

(Tired of cute kittens? Click here for lots of really cute slime mold images.)

Asemic comics are published here two or three times a week, mostly on Tuesday and Friday. The schedule might vary by a day or two sometimes, depending on what's going on in my life, but if you check in on Tuesday and Friday, you can be 99% sure you will see something new.

Ishar Ubak, or the Mystery of the Red Envelope

"In 1992, from May 11th to September 7th, Wm. Yost produced twenty-one panels depicting the Hila Station Map. What [the station] is exactly has never been explained, or where it is, what country, what planet, but I think of Zoo Station, and Bratsk Station, and the Paris Metro, the London Underground, the New York Subway, places as mythical as the canals of Mars."

Hila Station, Revisited

Hubbub

To me, this gif is reminiscent of the movie, Yellow Submarine, but the inspiration was Prince rather than the Beatles. When I was working on one of the frames (in black-and-white), Prince leaned over my shoulder and whispered, “Make it purple.” Not really, not as a ghost or some other psychic presence. In one sense, I know Prince is really gone, but in another sense, in a very real way (there is more than one reality), I know he is still part of the universe. All the dead are, and always were, and will be. They can still communicate thoughts and ideas, when you open your mind to the universe.

Busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before

This title is a line from “Raspberry Beret”, which is a good candidate for my favorite Prince song. A favorite song is always relative to what’s happening in your life at any one time. About an hour ago, when I was driving down the road, it was “Little Red Corvette”. I rolled down the windows and cranked up the radio to earsplitting levels. It’s a warm today, here in my part of California, so all the other cars had their windows up with the AC on. I didn’t care. It made me feel better.

Medusa was Somebody's Mother

Yost wrote "Mary Dow Brine" on the back of this GLP panel.

Medusa was the mother of Pegasus, the flying horse, and Chrysaor, a young man (and/or giant). They were both born in the moment when Perseus cut off Medusa's head. Chrysaor translates as "He who has a golden sword"; apparently he emerged from his mother's body (or blood) with sword in hand.

Uncertainty Schematic, Treasure Map

Asemic comics are usually published here two times a week, on Tuesday and Friday.

"Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

This is one of Yost’s attempts to interpret the poem by Harold Munro. Yost was not invested in depicting “Overheard on a Saltmarsh” to the same depth of his obsession with “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charolotte Perkins Gilman, but at least eleven GLP panels have been identified as representing the Munro poem.

(Apologies for not posting this GLP comic on Friday. Yesterday I was feeling a bit under the weather, so I napped and watched old movies. I re-watched The Thing from Another World (1951) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004), two movies that are on my admittedly idiosyncratic list of "Cozy, Feel-Good Movies".)

A moon speaks with a marigold tongue

A character in this GLP comic is based on a seed I received in the mail from Mary Disney.

Today's lucky enumerated stellations