The Tale of the Adventurous Serif

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday (or Monday), Thursday (or Friday) and Sunday (or Saturday).

Zoomoozophone Review 8

Martian Comics

Many people have asked why it took the Martians so long to encounter comic books, when comic books had been in existence for more than fifty years before 1972. There are certain people who claim they have actually asked actual Martians, and have received dozens of different answers in several different languages. Henry F. S. Little and Nicholas P. Dooren, in Martian Oratory Principles (Beanfield Press, Seattle, 1998) insist that only three of these answers are significant, usually translated as "They were in the stack." "We were not ready." "We were taking a nap." My personal favorite is: "We were distracted by albatrosses eating Fig Newtons."

I am so excited about this.

Geranium Lake Properties, Water Snake River

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday (or Monday), Thursday (or Friday) and Sunday (or Saturday).

From the Jack Loki's Raindance series.

Geranium Lake Properties, Green Planet Emerges

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday (or Monday), Thursday (or Friday) and Sunday (or Saturday). We missed last Sunday so we are posting two cartoons today, both from Jack Loki's Raindance series.

Geranium Lake Properties, the apple cut her into quarters

Schedule (and alternate days): Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday (or Monday), Thursday (or Friday) and Sunday (or Saturday).

Geranium Lake Properties, fugitive ambiguity

Geranium Lake Properties, undergo four pinpoints

Gettin' back in touch with the black-and-white roots of GLP. Also the nonsensical and/or implausible titles.

Asemic comics will still be published here three times a week, on Tuesday(or Monday), Thursday(or Friday) and Sunday (or Saturday). The schedule for GLP might be somewhat irregular for a few weeks, as we settle into the new year.

Geranium Lake Properties, orient are

Yost scribbled in pencil on the back of this comic:

journey
procession
adoration
dill
thyme
cayenne

Geranium Lake Properties, go boom

Fire and Ice
By Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

GLP 2015 Retrospective

More:
GLP 2015 Retro Part 1
GLP 2015 Retro Part 2
GLP 2015 Retro Part 3
Unseen Colors
Layers

Samsara Comics, Et in terra pax

Geranium Lake Properties, laden bough

Geranium Lake Properties, A Tale of Oatmeal and Dwindling Spoons

On the back of this comic, Yost wrote:

clarified
shanks
ha! ha!

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What the GLP holiday schedule looks like right now: On Thursday, the eve of Xmas, we will post a wintry GLP panel, and on Xmas day we will post one (or maybe two) holiday Samsara panels. No posts during the following weekend. On Tuesday, Dec. 29, we might see some favorite GLP comics from the past year. New Year's Eve will be a new GLP or Samsara post, and then we will take a short break until Jan. 5, 2016.

Geranium Lake Properties, an elf is nobody's minion

On the back of this drawing, Yost wrote:

[indecipherable scribble] from Santa's workshop?????
moon pi
check phone mess
Boccherini Symphony in C Mjr

Geranium Lake Properties, Candy Cane Lane

This one is less Yost and more me, but I am sure that Yost, like many of us, had childhood memories of streets transformed at Christmas into Candy Cane Lanes.

Geranium Lake Properties, Saturn and Sol

This Christmas season, why not put Saturn back into Saturnalia, and Sol Invictus back into Dies Natalis Solis Invicti?

Geranium Lake Properties, distinguished gutted prefab rehabs

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday (or sometimes Saturday night).

Geranium Lake Properties, a chaotic and quixotic search...

...for the perfect conifer.

When I'm not on holiday, asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday (or sometimes Saturday night).

Geranium Lake Properties, Jack Loki and the Miracle Squad

From "The Adventure of the Marzipan Lotus".

Geranium Lake Properties, turn one hair

In this panel, I am feeling the end of fall, and the first frosts of winter. Ha Kim Ngoc identifies this as part of Jack Loki's translations of Shakespeare for horned lizards, but she does not tell us which play this panel illustrates. To me it looks more like Dickens, especially at this time of year, when I have already watched my first Christmas Carol movie. "Mothers and daughters" is the note Yost penciled on the back.