Uncertainty Schematic, Treasure Map

Asemic comics are usually published here two times a week, on Tuesday and Friday.

"Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

This is one of Yost’s attempts to interpret the poem by Harold Munro. Yost was not invested in depicting “Overheard on a Saltmarsh” to the same depth of his obsession with “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charolotte Perkins Gilman, but at least eleven GLP panels have been identified as representing the Munro poem.

(Apologies for not posting this GLP comic on Friday. Yesterday I was feeling a bit under the weather, so I napped and watched old movies. I re-watched The Thing from Another World (1951) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004), two movies that are on my admittedly idiosyncratic list of "Cozy, Feel-Good Movies".)

A moon speaks with a marigold tongue

A character in this GLP comic is based on a seed I received in the mail from Mary Disney.

Today's lucky enumerated stellations

A brazen bull rolls through stacks of terracotta and wicker teacups

Asemic comics are published here two times a week, on Tuesday and Friday.

The Injurious Monograph

Asemic comics are published here two times a week, on Tuesday and Friday.

Cultivation in Sallow Knobbly and the Glassy

© 2016 Lin Tarczynski

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?

Four branches sacrificed unto the idylls of the air

Asemic comics are published here two times a week, on Tuesday and Friday.

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).

The precise flight from random factories

Asemic comics are published here two times a week, on Tuesday and Friday (new schedule).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

My Valentine for You