Six of One or a Half-Dozen of Another from Vraicking

Queen of Heaven: Around the time Wm. Yost was devising the mask for Icon Number Fifty-Nine, Queen of Heaven was looking for an artist for the cover of their album In Elephantine Time. The band had hired Pete Cafferata as their producer for...

Reluctant Primordial Death: Of late, when I find myself browsing through the Geranium Lake Properties archives, I have been scrutinizing any materials related to Inultarumet concepts of death, with special attention given to...

Go Ask Alice: In the story “The Straighter Stronger Course to a Corner of the Light” Jack Loki and his traveling companions, Ivannahven Yurimlaudey and Skelty-the-Fourth, visit one of Alice Aroumbeyski’s studios. The location of the studio is not...

Rumors and Murmurs of Transfiguration: The truth is...

Five Open Doors: “We have been here for a very long time, yet there is not enough time, never enough time,” said the Fool to the Thief, to which the Thief replied: “Let us not talk falsely now. We will not...

Ravel and Unravel: It is a hard world out there among the Hahnoquimmish. Do not let anyone tell you differently. People will offer you sanctuary, but it will be a lie. They cannot offer you what they do not have for...

Thorny Humus and Other Stories

Thorny Humus: Today, or tonight, is Yifteyzoumaymy, the third holiday in the Three Nights celebration. We can suppose Wm. Yost had his own reasons for creating this...

Three for Kol-Koy: Two days after I included Icon Number Fifty-Seven in this post from February 20, I found the officially published1 image for Icon Number Sixty-one. This mask is a portrait of...

Reyat-suki’s Winter Heart: This winter, I have not been inspired, not particularly, not generally, to continue the tale of “The Green Man in Winter“, but I thought that perhaps, with the onset of spring, on the last day of...

Irreshkwilmat was the Correct Answer: Our best guesses were wrong. This mask was neither the demalion Ummusenyobi nor Annaistrem-teyniva of the Annsugamfe. She was a variation of...

Political Cartoon: The word “political” does not need to be followed by the word “bias”. Biases are intrinsic to politics – we cannot have a political view without being biased. Truly, basically, we cannot have any kind of view without...

Red is Gray and Yellow White

It was not until mid-December that I decided to put together a series of Geranium Lake Properties comics for Christmas. I wanted to continue with the masks and faces I have collected from the GLP archive, and my idea was to knock them together with an angel theme. A concept that almost immediately became problematical. Really not my most brilliant idea, but I persisted. It is not like I have a shortage of...

6EQUJ5