Thursday, January 29, 2015

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.

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Geranium Lake Properties, lazy thread exploits





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

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Geranium Lake Properties, take the field, take the marches, take the refusal


Another panel by guest artist Quinto K. Thelsear.

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

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."

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, the reason for aviation


I worked the last of my extra holiday hours and I was too tired to post a GLP cartoon on Tuesday, but it's 4 am on Wednesday here, so that's almost Tuesday. Today's yellow wallpaper cartoons, and last Sunday's, and this coming Thursday's, were never seen in the newspapers that published Geranium Lake Properties. They first appeared on Ha Kim Ngoc's website, the late lamented GLP Compendium, which shut down in 2004 under threat of legal action from Sindacato Nuovo Secolo Media, SNSM, popularly known as Snism. More recently, they were published in Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper, a limited edition book of which five copies were sold before sales were stopped by a lawsuit.

After Yost's disappearance, his assistant Ha Kim Ngoc found a dozen folders of unpublished cartoons. Most of these, nearly 200 drawings, were Yost's attempts to illustrate "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The folders were numbered, and we are finishing off this year, and starting the next, with six cartoons from folder number four.

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, grace from the ascended


Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. I had no time to post yesterday's cartoon, so here it is a day late.

Sunday, December 21, 2014

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".

Tuesday, December 16, 2014