© 2016 Lin Tarczynski
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Friday, March 18, 2016
Safety in numbers
Today I am finding comfort in an early style of Geranium Lake Properties. Did you know Yost first called them Geranium Lake Prophecies?
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Four branches sacrificed unto the idylls of the air
Asemic comics are published here two times a week, on Tuesday and Friday.
Friday, March 11, 2016
Bonnethead
On the back of today's panel, Yost wrote in pencil “Crow’s Account of St. George”, which is a poem by Ted Hughes.
Asemic comics are published here two times a week, on Tuesday and Friday (new schedule).
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
The precise flight from random factories
Asemic comics are published here two times a week, on Tuesday and Friday (new schedule).
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Two factors query and impart velocity
I will be trying out a two-day-per-week schedule for Geranium Lake Properties, on Tuesdays and Fridays. This week-end is going to be a busy one for me, so the next GLP comic will go up Tuesday, March 8.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Flirting with imperial culture
Asemic comics are still published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, although I am thinking of going to a two-days-a-week schedule for GLP (maybe Tuesday and Friday) to free up time to devote to other projects. If you have an opinion on the best days to post, your input is welcome. I can't post GLP on Sundays and Wednesdays.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Two from Qoheleth
Top: The wisdom of incoherence
Bottom: The philosophy of the cliché
Qoheleth is a series of random-appearing panels within GLP, much like the Fifty-Cent Trip or the Yellow Wallpaper series. Wikipedia will tell you that Qoheleth is the author of Ecclesiastes. Yost once let slip that “Qoheleth” was an alias for a real person in his life. Gralie Bohe used it for the middle name of a cat, John Q. Public, in her novel, The Boy in the Yellow Leatherette Portmanteau. (This was the post for Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. I have problems with time in the Twenty-First Century.)
The difficulty of crossing a field
Asemic comics are still published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, even though lately I have been missing my Saturday post and posting it on Monday.
Monday, February 22, 2016
An alliance of outsiders who rule over a wide-spread otherness
Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I missed last Saturday's cartoon, so I am posting it today.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Luristan bronze
Today’s comic steals from a book on the shelf above my computer monitor, jammed between Shocking Beauty by Thomas Hobbs and Where the Buffaloes Begin by Olaf Baker, illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Neither of those books is imaginary. Forty-Four Insanely Fun DIY Craft Projects from Luristan Bronzes, From the Dang Simple to the Kinda Hard, written by Amy Lou Biehl and illustrated by Celestina Zeballos, comes out of my library of imaginary books. It was published in 1973 by Ten Speed Press in Berkley, California. Soft cover, with 160 pages.
Yost’s copy is signed by Celestina Zeballos with the inscription “For Wm. Thanks for the absurd pedigree full of rain. Celestina Z.”
Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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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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".
“..the centaur held up a cluster of tiny monkeys…”
Sorry, I somehow forgot to post this last Saturday!
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Monday, February 8, 2016
Twist the sinews
Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, except I am putting up Tuesday's cartoon today for the Chinese New Year.
Saturday, February 6, 2016
A glimpse of the incessant worldsilver
Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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
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