Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Geranium Lake Properties, the Return of the Jackalope



Jack Loki's Raindance

In the summer of 1992, golden California was baked brown and burnt from a drought that had lasted 5 years. Wm. Yost was a California resident at the time, living in a trailer park* near Oceano Beach. GLP's sporadic protagonist, the irrepressible jackalope named Jack Loki (or "Holmes Tuttle" to his close friends), lived in an undetermined desert that could have been the Sonoran, the Mohave, the Gobi, the Mongolian-Manchurian steppe, or the deserts of Barsoom. Yost, born in Wickenburg, Arizona, and Jack, a wild creature native to deserts, were both accustomed to drought as a natural cycle of their environment. Even so, the situation in California in 1992 seemed severe, almost dire. In response, Yost created a series of GLP panels called "Jack Loki's Raindance". That winter (1992-1993) the drought broke with rainfall totals that nearly reached record amounts.

California is suffering from another tremendous drought right now, so I thought it would be a good time to break out the raindance panels.

*The trailer park grew up around a Victorian-style mansion called the Coffee T. Rice House. Before the trailer park was built, the house was surrounded by a Christmas tree farm where my family would find and cut our tree when I was a child. Here are two encounters with the Coffee T. Rice House by bloggers writing about California's central coast:

https://newleafgarden.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/birds-and-beef/

http://diaryofamadbabyboomer.com/2014/10/15/pacific-coast-highway-day-1-la-to-pismo-beach/

Samsara Comics, known remediation and release

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Samsara Comics, well-crafted linen plunged into a mystery


I feel a GLP panel breathing through this one.

Samsara Comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Samsara Comics, countless frustrations


“Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory.”

Sri Chinmoy

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Friday, June 5, 2015

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Samsara Comics, the happening


In the last few weeks the panels for Geranium Lake Properties have been changing, evolving into a new sensibility. I want to acknowledge this change with it’s own title, Samsara, which is a choice that has been clearly indicated to me by the GLP universe. Starting today, you will see a different header on the frame for Geranium Lake Properties.

I have tagged a few past GLP panels with the label “samsara”, panels that I can now recognize as part of the evolution of this new/old direction. I don’t know yet if Samsara is a kind of mini-series within the GLP universe, similar to the asemic opera The Blues. Let’s just see where this takes us.

Samsara Comics will be are published according to the same schedule as Geranium Lake Properties, three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.