Mild Steel Recipe

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What the Moth Sees

I have two slides for today’s GLP comic, each is...

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A Stirring in the Atmosphere of the Third Heaven

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Only One to Challenge Antiquity

The date on this GLP panel was Easter Sunday in...

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Three Square Assurances from the World-Sharers

From 1985 comes one of my fave GLP misprints made by Newark’s Star-Ledger. Bottom image is the correct version of “Three Square Assurances from the World-Sharers”. If you’ve been paying attention, you know which of the two was Yost’s favorite.

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Alkali Mismatched With Acid (plus 2 misprints)

Haunted Baptism

This panel is my current favorite misprint of GLP by Newark’s Star Ledger newspaper. Yost was usually delighted with the Star Ledger’s mistakes, but in this case he was silent about his feelings. Yost’s assistant, Ha Kim Ngoc, reports that she found an old clipping of this misprint tacked to the back wall of a closet in an empty bedroom of Yost’s house, after he disappeared on his trip to New Zealand in 1999.

For comparison: Hsieh and Tse Flee Thessaloniki for Grand Coteau

The Island of California

This is from the yellow wallpaper series. The top image is typical of the way we present and view Geranium Lake Properties on the internet. I am lucky to have access to color transparencies of Yost's original art, and the color is as brilliant and accurate as my computer can make it. GLP began as a black-and-white single panel comic (Yost was influenced by New Yorker cartoonists like Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg) and there exists a popular notion that Yost began to experiment with color only in the later years of the comic. Actually, his color experiments date from the beginning of GLP, and Yost used color in some of his early conceptual sketches.

Yost's distributors were adamant in their resistance against anything that was not black-and-white, but they eventually relented and accepted full-color work. Most newspapers received the color panels after they had been rendered into grayscale. Some newspapers chose to print color, with varying degrees of failure. The falures usually delighted Yost.

The bottom image gives you an idea of how the color of Geranium Lake Properties looked when printed in newspapers, beginning on the left with a grayscale representation.

Dirtbone fragments from an entirely new species of grass

Top is the misprint from Montevideo, Uruguay, from the newspaper El País, February 9, 1995. This is one of the misprints Yost preferred over his original work.

Geranium Lake Properties, confound your friends, dismay your enemies

We have not shown a misprint from Newark’s Star-Ledger in a while. Yost really loved the Star-Ledger misprints, and this is one of his favorites. Bottom image is how the world outside New Jersey saw today's GLP panel.

GLP Misprint

Misprint of Geranium Lake Properties by the The Sun News-Pictorial, Melbourne, Australia, January 22, 1987.

Geranium Lake Properties, heliacal layabout

Top image is the Newark’s Star-Ledger misprint, which is Yost's favorite version of this panel. Second image is the Los Angeles Times misprint, and Yost's second favorite version. The third image is his least favorite, the cartoon as he created it. You should be able to see all the misprints, if I remembered to tag them correctly.

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Geranium Lake Properties, blood oranges

And the above panel is what appeared in every other paper in the world.

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Geranium Lake Properties, golden delicious

It has to be admitted that most of the time, Newark's Star-Ledger got it right. In fact, there was one notable occasion when the Star-Ledger was the only paper that got GLP right. On the morning of Aug. 8, 1990, New Jersey residents opened their premier newspaper and discovered the above GLP panel in its customary pride-of-place, the right-hand corner of the Star-Ledger's comics page. The panel was part of a series that GLP historian Michael Veerduer would later call "The Fifty Cent Trip", in an article he wrote for the short-lived zine The Longest Salmon.

Geranium Lake Properties, lazy thread exploits

Another example of a misprint by Newark's Star-Ledger (bottom panel).

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Geranium Lake Properties, clairaut's clashed histories

Misprint from The Star-Ledger:


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Geranium Lake Properties, fifth quadrant of gauss

One of these is another misprinted cartoon from Newark’s Star-Ledger. Can you guess which? The Star-Ledger gave it the caption "Journey into the fifth quadrant."

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Geranium Lake Properties, dense gray to black

Top image: Misprint from Newark's Star-Ledger newspaper. The Star-Ledger misprinted Geranium Lakes Properties more times than any other newspaper in this country, publishing a total of 73 glitched cartoons during GLP's ten year run. Yost often prefered the misprinted versions to the correct ones.

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