Rhymes With Nemesis

It was back in September when I first dug this Geranium Lake Properties panel out of the archive. It originally appeared in “A Feast of Eels is a Meal of Mystery and Mud”, a story in which Jack Loki witnessed the eerie phenomenon of the Greenrise Convergent Surge. I felt it would make a good post for October, suitable to the Halloween month. But then I encountered Yost’s artwork for some Pete Cafferata albums and I became distracted by the research for the Square to Gemini post.

I set this comic aside, along with the cover art of Pete Cafferata’s so-called Christmas album, and then forgot about it. Only to find it again when I started putting together the story behind Cafferata’s Rollicking the Latest Apocalypse, which I hope to post soon. Meanwhile, belatedly, please enjoy today’s offering.

2024 June

Three in June...

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Postmodern Fable

In today’s post, alongside images from Wm. Yost’s unfinished graphic novel, The Last Lost Memoir of Casanova, is an excerpt of Yost’s 1998 interview from Occurrences magazine. Yost was...

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A Green Weld Rusted

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2024: May

Summer Breathing Down the Neck of Spring: These are masks of two demalions that personify Hildegard von Bingen’s concept of viriditas, which is one of Yost’s favorite themes. The first one is Ethullosba from the Jack Loki adventure “A Wasteland of Linen”, the second is Ingottanyl from “Forgotten Dances of Survival and Kindness”.

The Lumenist, Part 1: By the time of her interview with Meg Gannon*, a few days before the release of The Lumenist (Glass Octopus Press, 1978), Gralie Bohe was already impatient with...

2024: April

A Mask of the Eyrillim: First off, I think this might help: Eyrillim is the plural, Eyrilmonghet is the singular. Eyrillim is the Inultaru name used for members of...

Darn It! Late Again: Yesterday morning, while browsing through files of unpublished images in the Geranium Lake Properties archive, I came across these two panels with their depictions of the moon and...

Five Carthaginian Bodhisattvas: According to Ha Kim Ngoc, there should be at least sixteen Geranium Lake Properties comics marked in some manner with the abbreviation 5CB, but it is no surprise to me that...

Spring Cleaning: A package arrived at the GLP archive last week. The archive was closed at the time. I imagine the sign on the front door said “Closed For Spring Cleaning” in a...

A Package from Terror Addams Part Two: I did not mention (in my last post) this other item that Terror Addams included in their package because it deserved a post of its own*. I am thrilled to reveal that...

Travesty Is A Verb: Missing Pages: “Triple/Triad Goddesses” was what Yost had written in the Two Teddy Bears Journal under the heading “TIAV Masks”. An arrow indicates that this is a description of a mural in the Other Space Museum on...

Three Months in 2024: January - February - March

Twelfth Night: I felt that I needed to wait until after sunset before I posted the Twelfth Night mask of Kordeyn Guhtellop, the Three Nights demalion. I also expected this would give me enough time to unravel...

Non Nostri Chaos Circulus: I have seen this Geranium Lake Properties comic identified many times as Mother Jackal in her guise as the Rescuer of Witches, so the first thing I want to say...

Dependent Arising: This is an image of Yost’s final version for the album cover* of The Empty Space, the second album from Chansons de Geste. Which was the side project of two members of...

Socrates Would Appreciate a Good Wurncheolf: Today is the holiday we call Dpajormymy, and here in this unpublished Geranium Lakes Properties comic we have Kordeyn Guhtellop, the Three Nights demalion, wearing a...

Living in a Black and White World: Digging through the mazy warren that is the Geranium Lake Properties archive, I have unearthed several files dedicated to GLP comics that appeared in various zines, amateur fanworks and...

The Height of Wit: We’ve had some funny moments on this blog in the past ten years. You may have missed them, my sense of humor can be subtle sometimes. Other times...

Harrow (Complete in 5 Pages): With this post I am continuing our journey through a black and white world, with an abstract comic I created to fulfill a request from Zeszyty Komiksawe...

It Pours: Two posts in the same day! I have been saving these coloring pages for a rainy day activity, and right now I am waiting for...

Springing Along: The equinox came and went a few days ago, but spring had been springing along for at least a month before that. We had a mild, wet winter, so...

Holy Fool: After six years of constancy, the roster of players in the band Immanis et Inanis changed several times between 1985 and 1994, when they finally broke apart and declared that the band was entering into...

Non Nostri Chaos Circulus

I have seen this Geranium Lake Properties comic identified many times as Mother Jackal in her guise as...

Dependent Arising - This is an image of Yost’s final version for...

Twelfth Night - I felt that I needed to wait until...

A Walk on the Moon - In the traditional history (which is more legend than...