A Month of Maskes

October! The Halloween Month! A month that provides the perfect thematic excuse to post some of the many masks found in Geranium Lake Properties. So many masks, so little time...

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Too Many Dropped Stitches

How many dropped stitches is too many? The answer is one. Only one dropped stitch will cause...

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The Orbiting Dictum of a Salty Salt Ghost Beetle

I would like to address the erroneous notion that this panel somehow depicts the extinction of...

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Roots and Starts (A genealogy of the Moss Folk)

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The Season of Straw and Lichen

Another mask designed by Alice Aroumbeyski. Since that day when...

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Incomplete traces of a once-living body

I was digging around in Yost’s notebooks, looking for a page on which he had jotted...

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Lappalleppi

Things on the internet happen like mushrooms popping out of...

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Desert Tales

"...fierce heat, drought, wind, bitter winter nights and spring hailstorms..."

The Tragedy at Dreams Come True

Today’s Geranium Lake Properties comic is a panel from the re-telling of an old folktale, “Korri Avastusek and the...

Nine Unanswered Questions

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Montaigne's Three Score and Ten

Decay is the Star in the Heart of Spring

Whereof the Ewe Not Bites

In 1998, when he worked for Little, Brown, the publisher Martin Pietsch invited Yost to submit five...

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Askant and Whilom Routines

My best reconstruction of “Chardon Rocaille”, a fabric and...

Master of the Taiga

This would be Mestari Kircanju, a forestcousin, which is the Inultaru’s version of a werewolf. Their animal shape is not so much a wolf as a wolverine, or fisher cat, and they can be as large as a bear or a man, or as small as a sled dog.

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Snow Moon

The Poppy Garden

Whether you call it fields or a garden is a matter for an argument that can only be resolved by tolerating each other’s personal preferences. I prefer to call it...

Their Urgency was Insignificant to the Aloof Flenglimmir

The Return of Astanu Neforai

Today is the first day of Whitsuntide, which jackalopes observe as the first day of menos penockrel nimbersoo. Which is...

Happy Accidents This Last Month

It is not a big holiday for the Inultaru, but I imagine jackalopes are a bit peeved...

Demonizing That Which Does Not Belong

Hello! Long time no see, but here I am, with my first post in an endeavor to...

The Begibatekin Rose

Another entertaining panel from “The Adventure of the Sage, the Scholar, and the...

The Ganapinpirra Ruse

A comedic exploit from “The Adventure of the Sage, the Scholar, and the Ox Driv...

The Labyrinth of Suoja

At the entrance to the Labyrinth of Suoja is a granite plinth engraved with...

The Center, the Sphere, the Bowl of Time

Yost’s source for this image is probably a gatehouse mask made by the Buliopenbex Cabal. This is a mask of the Jackalopian god Ekchuajumudabrutu, in their first manifestation as a monstrous child of Tiamat. In this incarnation, they are generally regarded as a god of fury, a raging force of nature, but to me, they seem like this huge infant ball of fuzzy chaos that expresses their pains, delights, sorrows and excitements as massive squalling thunderstorms.

The Quiddity of the Watknot Ocarina

It is often misspelled as “Whatnot” or...

A Conversation with a Troll

The space in today’s panel is totally occupied by Yost’s design for the cover of the Last Grimoire of Fayette Grathnachtwum, which functions in the GLP universe as both a MacGuffin and a Necronomicon.

Some Kind of Transmundane Trajectory

There is a note on the back of the artwork for today’s GLP comic:

A Corsican Escape Through Sheetrock and Cork

The penultimate panel in “The Conundrum of the Swivetbee Mews”.

I have noticed that when most people use the word “penultimate”, even good writers who should know better, they seem to think it means the big revelation, the last word or the climax of the story. Some people use it as a synonym for “ultimate” in the sense that this is an extra-special, fancy-sounding ultimate.

It just means second to the last.

(My Official Geranium Lake Properties Calendar was delivered yesterday. The only thing I feel I need to say about it is that it is pretty damn stunning.)

Interludes and Meditations

This upcoming Sunday is Kopje Modder Dag – Cup of Mud Day – one of the several Inultaru holidays that celebrates the miraculous presence of coffee in our lives...

Official 2022 Geranium Lake Properties Calendar