Landscapes & Shelter for Frogs, Part 2

After the release of The Empty Space album by Chansons de Geste, Teri Ainsworth and Ross Kerrinza jumped back on the bandwagon of Bury Me Standing for...

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The Unnamed Haddock

But why, you might ask, would the atheistic jackalopes of the Inultaru culture need a common prayer? Or any kind of prayer?...

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The Common Prayer

Once upon a time, there was a large faction of jackalopes who put a substantial amount of effort into trying out the Catholic religion for a century or...

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The Yellow Wallpaper

It is fair and partaking of no hyperbole to say that Yost was obsessed with the task of creating illustrations for “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The oft-told story is...

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They Come in Threes

According to the label, the three entities in the twenty-fourth issue of this series printed by the Bureau of Yeltik Imbarrahju (which began printing the Icons as...

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Arbor Day and a Giant Curlew

Tree Hoarding: For today’s post in the Cabinet of Curiosities that is this blog, I have chosen to showcase two pieces from the Geranium Lake Properties archive that have almost chirpy cracker barrel nothing to do with Arbor Day....

Down to Earth: On Monday April 21st a man took a long walk (reportedly 53 miles long) while wearing a giant curlew costume to raise awareness for World Curlew Day. It was Earth Day on...

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Sands Be Toast, Part 1

The mystery of the twenty-first demalion in the Icon series is not who she is – everyone knows who she is. The Wostimendiannut is the high priestess of...

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Peculiar Intent, Part 2

There are several ways of performing name magic according to Jackalopian traditions. Name magic is when you...

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Needful Exorcism

Today we have several variations of the mask worn by Jorjee Arrasho Dabbol Lu-Keya, who belongs to a group of demalions called the meyolla-Din, a name that is the accepted short...

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Dreams and Anguish - February 2025

I am God: The current President of the United States has declared (through an official White House social media account on Twitbox or...

She is God: The Inultaru do not have the problems with genders that bedevil Americans. They do have a question of genus that has been fiercely debated in their academic communities since...

Dreams of Krishna: I am full of thoughts, to the brim and ove...

Dreams and Anguish: “Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” – Eugene Ionesco...

Cleft and Fallen: This style of mask, which is pierced in places and carved all the way through the material of the mask, so that it incorporates several lacunae as...

Four Masks for Mercy Maybe

Yost wrote “5CB” on the back of these four unpublished masks, which means we know they depict one of the Five Carthaginian Bodhisattvas (aka the Silver...

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Creatures of Catastrophe

Today the screen doors are open for the second day in a row. Yesterday temperatures pushed confidently into the seventies (Fahrenheit) and today’s forecast is...

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Towhee and Junco

Wolf Moon

In 1993, the first full moon of that year, the Wolf Moon, brightened the night sky on the eighth of January, so it is a safe guess this unpublished Geranium Lake Properties comic illustrates...

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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...

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...