Thursday, May 29, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, ancient airs and dances


The Blues, Canto XIV, "The Dreaming Weeds (Farewell to the Garden)"

GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday, and occasionally Tuesday.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, no more apricots


The Blues, Canto XIII, "A Thin Rose Cry"
Part 1: The Departure of the Bees
Part 2: The Flowers Lament


GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday, and occasionally Tuesday.

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, among the ruins



The Blues, Canto XII, "The Far, Straight Gyre "
Part 1: The Herb Knot
Part 2: The Broken Fountain

GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday, and occasionally Tuesday.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, heart to heartwood


The Blues, Canto XI, "The Conversation"

Oriol speaks with Undfenquathodem, the oldest living being, in the Garden at the End of the World.

The living world
has been waiting
for man to learn
again
the natural language.

Humans have been
too busy,
too clever,
inventing countless
artifical languages.

Here
is the first man,
the last man,
who remembers
how to talk to life.

GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday, and occasionally Tuesday.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, under saroun


The Blues, Canto X, "The Garden at the End of the World"

GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday. And occasionally Tuesday. Currently we are hijacked by the asemic opera called The Blues. Please imagine incomprehensible (but soaring) arias, utterly fantastical costumes worn by fat people, and weird music not at all similar to Phillip Glass.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, oldest living thing in new york


The Blues, Canto IX, "Gone Half Where, Gone Half Here"

Oriol meets a most ancient being.

GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday. And occasionally Tuesday.

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, all the fish love Chachi


The Blues, Canto VII, "Una carta dirigida al Presidente"

This series was initially a series of four or five panels, but as the images evolved into more panels, I realized I was making something that was becoming a little more epic. It seemed to me that I was illustrating an asemic opera called The Blues.

In this scene, Canto VII, Oriol replies to a request from the President of the Last Empire. Oriol is the person asemically represented by this panel. He is the author of the Last Book. The President has asked Oriol to adapt his book into a tube video. People can no longer can read written words, alphabets have become asemic. (The old books were recycled for toilet paper, Halloween masks and building materials like insulation.) In a letter (depicted here)the President cannot hope to read, Oriol politely declines.

Later, after his death, Oriol's daughter Yukosha will interpret the first line of the Last Book as: "Bahtnatchu feynd Min Veyshveysh ar8888ra ep88pe tem888met ast888erik gulp888plug tcha8ahct tcha88ahct noo88oon sci888ics ops8888spo." Or, on special occasions: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the end of times, so long, and thanks for all the fish, love, Chachi."

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, curious shaker


The Blues, Canto IV, "Curious Shaker"

A child is born, his parents name him Moss. When he is eight years old, he discovers that he understands the languages of the earth. He calls himself Tiomquo Uvugrottuy, which he cannot translate into the languages of men. Most people call him Yellowjacket, Oriol, or the Man Who Speaks to Trees.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Geranium Lake Properties, Oracle of the Buried


The Blues, Canto II

Three soil-living characters predict the end of mankind. Not as grim as it might seem. Trees, plants and wildlife celebrate.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Sunday, April 13, 2014

April Fool's Day Cards Still Available


I will be mailing these postcards throughout the month of April. You just need to let me know where to send them.

Friday, April 4, 2014

Let us pause among the frescoes

My old computer has failed. I need a new computer. I need to fix some things. Geranium Lake Properties will be on a short hiatus, maybe 2 weeks, maybe less.

Revisit some of the old cartoons. Some of them (at least 61%) are pretty good.

I am still able to check my e-mail, so you may contact me at the usual place.

Love,

lcmt