Visual poetry. Poetry comics. Visual poetry comics. Asemic abstract comics.
Friday, October 5, 2018
A View of the Galahadian Tropical Zone
A conversation next to one of the windows in the Corsican screen, on the Galahadian side.
© 2018 lcmt
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Thursday, October 4, 2018
According to the Myths of Crow
The singular nature of Yost’s creative energy impelled him to make numeous GLP comics inspired by the poems in the book Crow by Ted Hughes. It was nowhere near the obsession Yost had for “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, but it was a preoccupation that lasted several years in the late 80’s. His final Crow piece was this one, a visual poetry broadsheet combining six interrelated abstract comics in the Geranium Lake Properties format. (Made with the help of Bil Sabab, aka Volodymyr Bilyk, and Phil Openshaw, aka Phil Openshaw.)
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A Tile From the Kitchen on Eleanor Avenue
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Ancient Quincuncial Networks
Jainne Lummrey was a postgraduate student at Newcastle University, studying the history and literature of early modern Britain, when she discovered Geranium Lake Properties in the British comic magazine Viz. (GLP appeared irregularly in Viz from 1987 to 1991, according to a deal with John Brown that was independent from Yost’s agreements with his other comics syndication services.) Jainne wrote to Yost after the “Ancient Quincuncial Networks” panel was published in May 1990. Thus began an ardent correspondence that lasted for nine years, until Jainne Lummrey’s death in 1999. Yost last letter arrived at Jainne’s London address two days after the police discovered her body. The letter was sent from New Zealand, postmarked the day before Yost disappeared after boarding a ferry from Auckland to Rangitoto Island.
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A Tale of Congenial Confusion Between Bronze, Iron, Calico and Velveteen
Begriffsschrift
Beriwa Tholdry is one of the Four Twilight Kingdoms in Geranium Lake Properties. It has been almost universally accepted among fans of GLP that the names of the Twilight Kingdoms are anagrams of friends or relatives of Wm. Yost, who had his own rules for making the anagrams he used in GLP comics. Most of the rules he kept secret, I know only two of them. He never used the letter “p” except under special circumstances, and he always made four letter changes. Four was a number of extraordinary significance for Yost.
One of my friends over at Ello, comandantechispas, a true master of anagrams, came up with a notable solution to the “Beriwa Tholdry” anagram: “writable hydro”. Writable water as a concept seems to me an entirely suitable (and perhaps even essential) element in the GLP universe.
© 2018 lcmt
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Monday, January 8, 2018
Friday, December 29, 2017
Firemare
The shape of the horse's head comes from an image I found online of a sculpture by John Lopez.
© 2017 lcmt
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Sunday, December 17, 2017
A Most Sacred Round Song
Turlehide Whales Stranded
I had a little help from James Joyce and Max Ernst with this one. The title was lifted from Ulysses, and I stole a bit of texture from an image of this painting.
© 2017 Lin Tarczynski
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