Alien Enthusiast Mysteriously Disappears Leaving Behind Map

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Six White Horses

"333 Day" is written in pencil on the back of today's panel, presumably by Mr. Yost. Threethreethree Day is a minor holiday for jackalopes in which they anticipate the extinction of the human species. It is a brief holiday (and merrier than Christmas because of that) with one song, "She's Comin' 'Round the Mountain", that has extra verses about the grim death of civilization as we know it. The last two verses are happy ones for jackalopes, contemplating the jollity that ensues when their god Ekchuajumudabrutu makes his triumphal (and extremely violent) return to supreme power.

Threethreethree Day is not celebrated in leap years.

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The Efflorescent Humor of the Pomegranate

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Essa Altura, Nesse Endereço

This time, at this address, within the inherent
qualms of punctual reincarnation, you can be
either unmarried or a unicorn.

Mr. Seven and the Family Luck

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Homage to the Memory of the Widow of the Poet

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Permission to depart from the perfection of true black

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The Itchiness of Synthetic Caffeine

Yost wrote this on the back:

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Protean Memories

Escape from the myths of modernity

A taalcif-shaped hole for escape in the Corsican screen. A taalcif is a tool made from the antlers of a taalchirrik. The 20th letter of this alphabet is shaped like a taalchirrik. Readers were challenged with different parts of the Corsican screen many times during GLP’s run from 1984 and 1997. You can see some of them here. This also might be a glimpse.

Ereshkigal is Fresh Out

The point in the story when Ereshkigal is fresh out of fardels to give always makes me laugh.

He and his brother watched clouds of lizard energy cluster and accelerate

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Ghost Pepper Savants Chirp Joy in the Leftover Sun of the Demonic Parking Lot

This is a collaboration with Michael Sikkema, author of Die Die Dinosaur, published by Blazevox. Michael provided the source material, a photograph of branches. I am very susceptible to branches, which can be used as characters or narrative structures. Michael is also the source of the title, which is a work of genius.

The Semi-Annual Gala Luncheon of Cognizance

Lin Tarczynski, Cover Design for an Imaginary Book, © 2017 lcmt

Inspired by this non-existent book.

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Paradise in the Large Never Never

The story behind today’s GLP comic could be the history of the band Cingroove, which was not so much a band as dance machine project created in the eighties by Samantha Zivotovsky, known professionally as Sam Zivo. Sam was an art punk (and a blood relative of Warren Zevon) with an abiding love for synthpop electro-boogie fusion, but she didn’t stop there. Sam felt compelled to squeeze several of her erratic musical obsessions into the mix of her soundtracks, including passions for the ukulele, the accordion, and traditional Mariachi string instruments, the vihuela and the guitarrón. When Sam was a child, she had accompanied her Jewish grandmother (who had lived in the same house in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, for sixty years) to Mariachi Plaza to hire bands for parties and weddings. In addition, Sam gave Cingroove a brass section with two trumpets and a trombone, an influence from her mother’s adoration of Earth, Wind & Fire, and Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass.

Cingroove achieved modest success in the eight years of its existence, with several songs popular in dance clubs, and three of them reaching Billboard’s Hot 100. The first was “Acrographinotus”, known as “Miz Lady Goatbug”, which was the popular interpretation of a garbled line in the song’s refrain. Sam never revealed the true meaning of the refrain.

“The tricky thing with my lyrics is that I need people to misunderstand them to get a hit single,” she said in an interview in Spin, May 1986. “Acrographinotus” reached number 38 on the Billboard chart. Cingroove’s second chart hit, “Paradise in the Large Never Never”, from their third album, reached number 24 in 1989, where it stayed for 11 weeks. Cingroove’s last hit, “Whiteface Heroes and Bluesky Gods”, also from the third album, was their biggest hit, reaching number 4 on the Billboard chart.

Cingroove entered the Geranium Lake Properties universe with "Acrographinotus"; Wm. Yost became a fan of the song, and drew several interpretations of the character Miz Lady Goatbug. He collaborated with Sam Zivo on the Cingroove logo, which was based on a graffiti stencil Sam had made of the band's name. Many years later, after Yost had retired and disappeared, Gralie Bohe wrote Samantha Zivotovsky into her novel, The Boy in the Yellow Leatherette Portmanteau. She appeared as a girlfriend of Yost's ex-wife.

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We Will Sacrifice Our Children to Fire

This is the last of the panels in my possession from the Valley of Gheionnim series. If you follow the tag for Gheionnim you should be able to see all five posts.

Yet Another Eikon Basilike

Rain Brings Fire

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A panel from the Valley of Gheionnim series. Reputedly, seven panels from the series exist, and Yost planned to make twelve in total, but I have only five transparencies in the collection I received from Ha Kim Ngoc.