“Are you familiar with the phrase ‘best laid plans’? Jack asked.
"Yes, of course,” said the cartographer.
“Well, what I would like, really, is a map that would get me directly to Awry, without the fuss and bother of making all those plans.”
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Saturday, February 29, 2020
Jack Loki’s Map to Gangaftagley
“Are you familiar with the phrase ‘best laid plans’? Jack asked.
"Yes, of course,” said the cartographer.
“Well, what I would like, really, is a map that would get me directly to Awry, without the fuss and bother of making all those plans.”
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Saturday, September 14, 2019
Stars Collapse to Become Landscapes
On the back of the original artwork for this comic, Yost wrote in pencil: “Collapse between Zam and Atar in the tower at Balkh” and “early aviation”.
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Three Square Assurances from the World-Sharers
From 1985 comes one of my fave GLP misprints made by Newark’s Star-Ledger. Bottom image is the correct version of “Three Square Assurances from the World-Sharers”. If you’ve been paying attention, you know which of the two was Yost’s favorite.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018
A Plain Gallop Overstride Onto A Cramped Anti-Djinn Jamboree
Two-thirds of the newspapers that originally printed this Geranium Lake Properties panel in 1987 used the word “Overstrike” instead of “Overstride” in the caption. Looking at a Xerox copy of the handwritten note that accompanied the artwork, I can’t really tell if the letter in question is a “d” or a “k”.
We sometimes refer to the captions for GLP comics as titles, but the correct term is caption.
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
Zellig's thistle-like syntax betrayed calculated changes in the entropy of unanimous breath.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Friday, November 9, 2018
A Grotrolem Decomposition of an Anise Seed
Named after Georgy Gustav Grotrolem, geometrist, born 1790, died sometime after 1868. On January 28, 1898, a body identified as Grotrolem’s was found in the attic of a house on Rue Espariat in Aix-en-Provence. His major work was published in Gesammelte Werke im Volumenschattengraphik, 1863.
Today’s GLP panel is one of the many misprints from Newark’s Star-Ledger preferred by Yost over the error-free reproductions. He liked this one so well that he apparently destroyed his original artwork, and we only have this image in the collection of GLP slides gifted to us by Yost’s assistant, Ha Kim Ngoc.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Bagri Maro and the Matacaballos
Bagri Maro is the hero of Tales of a Horse Scorpion, a series of novels by Raymond Lully. The setting of the novels is a future Earth where humans have become extinct and the world is dominated by five races of intelligent arthropods. Wm. Yost said he encountered the work of Raymond Lully in his early teens, when he saw the novels in a comic book, in a depiction of Dr. Strange's library by Steve Ditko.
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