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.

A Grotrolem Decomposition of an Anise Seed

Named after Georgy Gustav Grotrolem, geometrist, born 1790, died sometime after 1868. On January 28, 1898, a body identified as Grotrolem’s was found in the attic of a house on Rue Espariat in Aix-en-Provence. His major work was published in Gesammelte Werke im Volumenschattengraphik, 1863.

Today’s GLP panel is one of the many misprints from Newark’s Star-Ledger preferred by Yost over the error-free reproductions. He liked this one so well that he apparently destroyed his original artwork, and we only have this image in the collection of GLP slides gifted to us by Yost’s assistant, Ha Kim Ngoc.

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Ancient Quincuncial Networks

Jainne Lummrey was a postgraduate student at Newcastle University, studying the history and literature of early modern Britain, when she discovered Geranium Lake Properties in the British comic magazine Viz. (GLP appeared irregularly in Viz from 1987 to 1991, according to a deal with John Brown that was independent from Yost’s agreements with his other comics syndication services.) Jainne wrote to Yost after the “Ancient Quincuncial Networks” panel was published in May 1990. Thus began an ardent correspondence that lasted for nine years, until Jainne Lummrey’s death in 1999. Yost last letter arrived at Jainne’s London address two days after the police discovered her body. The letter was sent from New Zealand, postmarked the day before Yost disappeared after boarding a ferry from Auckland to Rangitoto Island.

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.)

Geranium Lake Properties, gagsgot skursonic

"Gagsgot skursonic" is a local colloquialism spoken in Whittlespear Beach, a town on the coast of California, approximately 145 miles south of Monterey.

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