Geranium Lake Properties, enough gilded ice

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

The Fifty Cent Trip

Geranium Lake Properties, blood oranges

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

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

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, une fois le soleil

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

Geranium Lake Properties, mapping the quince

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

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.

Geranium Lake Properties, clairaut's clashed histories

Misprint from The Star-Ledger:


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

Geranium Lake Properties, reverse dream percussion

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

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.

Geranium Lake Properties, a spoon in a marrow sky

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

Geranium Lake Properties, splintered this cutaneous steel

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

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.

Geranium Lake Properties, married a thief

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

Geranium Lake Properties, out to their costs

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

Geranium Lake Properties, bought it and brought it

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.

Geranium Lake Properties, jazz go down

Geranium Lake Properties, untrained voices

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

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.

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".