Hila Station, Revisited

Hubbub

To me, this gif is reminiscent of the movie, Yellow Submarine, but the inspiration was Prince rather than the Beatles. When I was working on one of the frames (in black-and-white), Prince leaned over my shoulder and whispered, “Make it purple.” Not really, not as a ghost or some other psychic presence. In one sense, I know Prince is really gone, but in another sense, in a very real way (there is more than one reality), I know he is still part of the universe. All the dead are, and always were, and will be. They can still communicate thoughts and ideas, when you open your mind to the universe.

Busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before

This title is a line from “Raspberry Beret”, which is a good candidate for my favorite Prince song. A favorite song is always relative to what’s happening in your life at any one time. About an hour ago, when I was driving down the road, it was “Little Red Corvette”. I rolled down the windows and cranked up the radio to earsplitting levels. It’s a warm today, here in my part of California, so all the other cars had their windows up with the AC on. I didn’t care. It made me feel better.

Medusa was Somebody's Mother

Yost wrote "Mary Dow Brine" on the back of this GLP panel.

Medusa was the mother of Pegasus, the flying horse, and Chrysaor, a young man (and/or giant). They were both born in the moment when Perseus cut off Medusa's head. Chrysaor translates as "He who has a golden sword"; apparently he emerged from his mother's body (or blood) with sword in hand.

Uncertainty Schematic, Treasure Map

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"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

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The Injurious Monograph

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Cultivation in Sallow Knobbly and the Glassy

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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

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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.

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The precise flight from random factories

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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

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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

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An alliance of outsiders who rule over a wide-spread otherness

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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.”

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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

The Misapprehension of Fortune

The title might be explained by the fact that I have been watching Alan Watts videos on Youtube.

Twist the sinews

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A glimpse of the incessant worldsilver

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Finding significance in the failure of words

Today’s GLP comic is all me. After I posted Tuesday’s panel, I received encouragement from both GLP historian Michael Veerduer, and Yost’s former assistant, Ha Kim Ngoc, to occasionally publish as myself under the Geranium Lake Properties title. I think it is a perfectly normal thing to get advice from fictional people. As soon as I learned to read, I started absorbing all sorts of life lessons from mythical beings, from Bartholomew Cubbins to Cinderella to Spider-Man to Dear Abby to Jesus. For my understanding of Wm. Yost, I have relied heavily on the novel The Boy in the Yellow Leatherette Portmanteau by Gralie Bohe, a fictional piece of fiction by a fictional author. (The novel is set in the fictional town of Whittlespear Beach, California. California is not fictional, it just seems that way.)

In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of knives, bats and clubs

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About the title of this panel

Early GLP

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Arriving at the southeast entrance to the Ambretafal Shoal House

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On the ferry from Ardnamurchan to Mull

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Another view through the Corsican screen

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The Tale of the Adventurous Serif

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Zoomoozophone Review 8

Martian Comics

Many people have asked why it took the Martians so long to encounter comic books, when comic books had been in existence for more than fifty years before 1972. There are certain people who claim they have actually asked actual Martians, and have received dozens of different answers in several different languages. Henry F. S. Little and Nicholas P. Dooren, in Martian Oratory Principles (Beanfield Press, Seattle, 1998) insist that only three of these answers are significant, usually translated as "They were in the stack." "We were not ready." "We were taking a nap." My personal favorite is: "We were distracted by albatrosses eating Fig Newtons."

I am so excited about this.

Geranium Lake Properties, Water Snake River

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From the Jack Loki's Raindance series.

Geranium Lake Properties, Green Planet Emerges

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Geranium Lake Properties, the apple cut her into quarters

Schedule (and alternate days): Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday (or Monday), Thursday (or Friday) and Sunday (or Saturday).

Geranium Lake Properties, fugitive ambiguity

Geranium Lake Properties, undergo four pinpoints

Gettin' back in touch with the black-and-white roots of GLP. Also the nonsensical and/or implausible titles.

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Geranium Lake Properties, orient are

Yost scribbled in pencil on the back of this comic:

journey
procession
adoration
dill
thyme
cayenne