Geranium Lake Properties, "The Ballad of Four Heads", second verse

Continuing with our Christmas carol theme, we have this panel by guest artist Quinto K. Thelsear. The cartoon draws its title from the song "Die Ballade von vier langen Heads", a German minnelied which borrowed its tune from a 13th century carol, "Tempus adest floridum", which was also used as the tune for "Good King Wenceslas".

Geranium Lake Properties, disassemble the smoke

Domestic Spirits #3 of 3

This was supposed to be posted on Thursday.

Geranium Lake Properties, "we haven't had that spirit here since 1969"

Domestic Spirits #2
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Geranium Lake Properties, domestic spirits

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Similiar to his obsession with "The Yellow Wallpaper", Yost tried many times to depict Scrooge's door knocker in A Christmas Carol, at the moment when Jacob Marley's ghost makes its first appearance. During several of his attempts, something else manifested on Yost's drawing board. For the next few days of GLP, in the spirit of the season, we will enjoy some examples of those manifestations.


Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, UPA, 1962, songs: Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, director: Abe Levitow

Geranium Lake Properties, spoken under the aegis

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Geranium Lake Properties, permission for departure

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Geranium Lake Properties, the great main bones egress

Escaping hypographic object HS1.990SV, nicknamed "Bluebird".

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Geranium Lake Properties, neruda

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Geranium Lake Properties, kalydeco crowhat

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Yost used elements of today's GLP in another attempt to illustrate "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (bottom image). He labeled all his attempts as failures, even though two of his pictures appeared with the "The Yellow Wallpaper" in short story anthologies. Another was used for the cover of a Gilman biography.

Geranium Lake Properties, keys to peace of neon

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Geranium Lake Properties, bleary strangers and nowadays

The famous East Window of the Gray Chapel at the Epsom quire mine.

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Geranium Lake Properties, Epsom quire mine

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Geranium Lake Properties, rap quick

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Geranium Lake Properties, rosebud arizona piper

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Geranium Lake Properties, jackalope totem

Jack Loki's family tree. When asked about this particular cartoon, Yost said, "Jack told me it really is not that unusual for jackalopes to have Creole werewolves in their ancestry. Or a loof lirpa or two.""

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Geranium Lake Properties, Maud's scattered outburst

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Geranium Lake Properties, "The Crowded Door"

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Geranium Lake Properties, "The Jackalope's Smile"

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Geranium Lake Properties, lost in translation

Today's GLP comic was a direct result of this post on Ello.

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Geranium Lake Properties, hart and newt

Today's panel was repurposed from one of Wm. Yost's several failed attempts to illustrate "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

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