The Big Bang of Pyrotechnocracy

July 4th is a night of unhappiness and terror for American dogs.

Wise King Og, Tales of the Rephaim

King Og of Bashannon appears in two of Jack Loki's adventures, "Illimilku's Treasure" and "Feather of a Swallow, Blood of an Owl". Both are treasure hunts instigated by the visions of a character named Jonesy Stoneseer, a Mahquam-nanteerf of the Second House, who is also an infamous fascrinnaytor. King Og recommends Jonesy Stoneseer to Jack, telling him that the fascrinnaytor currently enjoys Lady Fortune's good and generous favor.

"However, I must include this caveat," warns the king. "Do not employ him more than two times. A broken clock tells the correct time only twice. Do not rely on him for a third."

A fascrinnaytor is a person with apparently fraudulent magic or "psychic power", who somehow manages, by accident, by luck, by who-knows-what-mystery, to produce an end result of real value.

Postcards fom Zichia

Part of the Fifty Cent Trip, an intermittent series that appeared from March 1986 through 1989.

Dragons Know How to Make Gold into Straw

Another design by Alice Aroumbeyski in my collection of masks never before published in...

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Triangle Girl

Today’s post features more examples of masks that were not published during the...

We don't use AI

We don’t use AI to create the images on this blog. By the word “we”, I mean Wm. Yost, Alice Aroumbeyski and...

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Absent-Minded Theurgist

This mask of a onnijo-iwin-yikka, also known as a...

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Nine Mysteries

The Conservator's Allotment

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An Effigy for Rosewoods and Wildings

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The Chariot That Swings So Low

Happy Lantern Day!

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Red is Gray and Yellow White

It was not until mid-December that I decided to put together a series of Geranium Lake Properties comics for Christmas. I wanted to continue with the masks and faces I have collected from the GLP archive, and my idea was to knock them together with an angel theme. A concept that almost immediately became problematical. Really not my most brilliant idea, but I persisted. It is not like I have a shortage of...

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Charlie Chaplin Might Have Said This

This Geranium Lake Properties comic is not about Valentine’s Day, but it is pink and red and includes...

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Another Lichen Poem

A Month of Maskes

October! The Halloween Month! A month that provides the perfect thematic excuse to post some of the many masks found in Geranium Lake Properties. So many masks, so little time...

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Too Many Dropped Stitches

How many dropped stitches is too many? The answer is one. Only one dropped stitch will cause...

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The Orbiting Dictum of a Salty Salt Ghost Beetle

I would like to address the erroneous notion that this panel somehow depicts the extinction of...

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Roots and Starts (A genealogy of the Moss Folk)

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The Season of Straw and Lichen

Another mask designed by Alice Aroumbeyski. Since that day when...

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Incomplete traces of a once-living body

I was digging around in Yost’s notebooks, looking for a page on which he had jotted...

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