Visual poetry. Poetry comics. Visual poetry comics. Asemic abstract comics.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
The wife of one entirely unknown
The glyphs in this panel were made from a font called Asemicism, created by Tony Burhouse/Gene Mutation. I can't leave well enough alone, of course, so the letters are smooshed and flipped any which way. My interpretation of today's comic appears below, but before you read it, I would be pleased if you take some time to indulge your own imagination. There is no correct interpretation of my asemic work. If you prefer to ignore my interpretation in favor of your own, that's totally okay.
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POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
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What cartoon hero doesn't have a much-imperiled girlfriend? Jack Loki's significant other is dainty, sweet-tempered, ridge-backed, clodhopping Alice Aroumbeyski, portrayed here as a saucy Martian pin-up girl. Or boy. Or it. Alice was once described, with solemn sagacity, by her four-year-old cousin Sophia, as a "cobra-zebra with stickin'-up hair and bad neck".
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Monday, February 8, 2016
Twist the sinews
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Finding significance in the failure of words
Today’s GLP comic is all me. After I posted Tuesday’s panel, I received encouragement from both GLP historian Michael Veerduer, and Yost’s former assistant, Ha Kim Ngoc, to occasionally publish as myself under the Geranium Lake Properties title. I think it is a perfectly normal thing to get advice from fictional people. As soon as I learned to read, I started absorbing all sorts of life lessons from mythical beings, from Bartholomew Cubbins to Cinderella to Spider-Man to Dear Abby to Jesus. For my understanding of Wm. Yost, I have relied heavily on the novel The Boy in the Yellow Leatherette Portmanteau by Gralie Bohe, a fictional piece of fiction by a fictional author. (The novel is set in the fictional town of Whittlespear Beach, California. California is not fictional, it just seems that way.)
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of knives, bats and clubs
Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
About the title of this panel
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Another view through the Corsican screen
Friday, January 22, 2016
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
Thursday, January 21, 2016
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.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
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.
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Geranium Lake Properties, the apple cut her into quarters
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Friday, January 8, 2016
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.
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