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...

Seven Ales and Ciders

The two Geranium Lake Properties comics in today’s post were not published in newspapers. They were included with six...

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Sharp as Holly

We are not famous in our neck of the woods for...

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Eighth Day Cake

...on the eighth day, jackalopes will tell you, He Ate Cake. Which brings us to the honored-but-not-too-revered Jackalopian tradition of eighth day cake....

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Jackalope Mask

Another fine jackalope mask designed by Alice Aroumbeyski, a mask that Yost presented as one of her self-portraits. In the “The Ringer in the Substratum”, Alice has a conversation with her childhood friend Kamlyn about the suitability of wearing this mask to the wedding of a cousin who is essentially a stranger. (Alice had not spoken to her cousin for 16 years.) The two women decide that Alice should save the mask for her own wedding to Jack Loki.

Kamlyn was actually named Alice when they first met, when the girls were four years old. They did not become boon companions instantly, but because “a lamentable conspiracy beyond our control” (Alice’s words) kept throwing them together, they agreed to an alliance. The two girls decided that having the same name was “tiresome and traumatic” (Kamlyn’s words), so one Alice became Gwynne and the other Alice became Kamlyn. After a few years, Gwynne decide to become Alice again, but Kamlyn kept her name into adulthood.

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Bat Signal

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6. Maskyrinth 2024

5. Masks For All Seasons 2024

4. Twenty-Two Variation 2024

3. Twenty-Three Masks 2024

2. Full Phiz Masks 2024

1. Masquerade 2024

Firebird

According to historical legends of the Inultaru, the Sunissan-Pessoa was the cultural analog of...

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The Gaze (& Calendars!)

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.” So writes Victor Hugo (Les Misérables). But do not forget that the one you devour...

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A Door Stands Open Today

The first image in today’s post comes from Jack Loki’s escapade in “The Conundrum of the Butcher’s Broom”, and the second is a mask...

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Plummeting Into Fall

We had our first rain yesterday, today is the first of October, and autumn is...

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Movements and Gestures

austice

n. a wistful omen of the first sign of autumn–

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Night and Day

I am now able to tell you that this mask by Alice Aroumbeyski is a portrait of the demmalyun Yemjeyjey-ollu-Zoyozaya, who is often depicted as...

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Masks of Verisimilitude

“We did not develop language to tell the truth. Yes, we first used language to communicate, in desperation...

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Yellow Porch, Blue Gull

This portrait mask of Disappear-Out-of-the-Sky, the blue gull demmalyun, was designed but not...

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The Mask of Neivrilyadan

Today’s post features two interpretations of the Mask of Neivrilyadan. Because of various...

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Seasons Change and So Do I

Summer is overblown and aging fast, so I feel that I need to post this one quick, before the season falls apart. There are four panels in this series, one for each season. I believe Yost used the Winter mask for a Christmas card in 1998, but other than that, the four masks (which I plan to post in their appropriate seasons) have remained unpublished until now.

Wise King Og, Tales of the Rephaim

King Og of Bashannon appears in two of Jack Loki's adventures, "Illimilku's Treasure" and "Feather of a Swallow, Blood of an Owl". Both are treasure hunts instigated by the visions of a character named Jonesy Stoneseer, a Mahquam-nanteerf of the Second House, who is also an infamous fascrinnaytor. King Og recommends Jonesy Stoneseer to Jack, telling him that the fascrinnaytor currently enjoys Lady Fortune's good and generous favor.

"However, I must include this caveat," warns the king. "Do not employ him more than two times. A broken clock tells the correct time only twice. Do not rely on him for a third."

A fascrinnaytor is a person with apparently fraudulent magic or "psychic power", who somehow manages, by accident, by luck, by who-knows-what-mystery, to produce an end result of real value.

Dragons Know How to Make Gold into Straw

Another design by Alice Aroumbeyski in my collection of masks never before published in...

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Triangle Girl

Today’s post features more examples of masks that were not published during the...

We don't use AI

We don’t use AI to create the images on this blog. By the word “we”, I mean Wm. Yost, Alice Aroumbeyski and...

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