Geranium Lake Properties, a recipe for incarnate sugar bites

A collaboration between Yost and Edwina Zalewotski.

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Geranium Lake Properties, "Lahdagaiyo"

Abstract comics are published here every Tuesday and Thursday, and occasionally Sunday.

Geranium Lake Properties, "A Dream of the Coffee Spirit, Pt. 2"

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Geranium Lake Properties, "The Seventh Earl's Fixation"

Another guest artist, Quinto K. Thelsear, created several GLP panels in a 3 year period from 1991 to 1994.

Abstract comics are published here every Tuesday and Thursday, and occasionally Sunday.

Geranium Lake Properties, Noachis quadrangle aquifer

Once in a while, a guest artist would be featured on Geranium Lake Properties. This panel is by Edwina Zalewotski.

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Geranium Lake Properties, young white lime

Asemic comics are published here every Tuesday and Thursday, and occasionally Sunday.

Geranium Lake Properties, vouchsafe radium unto the lilacs

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Geranium Lake Properties, leaf sang remembering

This is a repeat from last year. We are feeling tender and nostalgic today.

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Geranium Lake Properties, the air, the arm

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Geranium Lake Properties, The Jackalope Mask

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Geranium Lake Properties, Jack Loki disguised as Hsu Yuen Pao

Today's panel is a repeat of an earlier favorite.

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Geranium Lake Properties, Caves of Fear, Part 3

Jack Loki puts on his spelunker's hat and visits the Caves of Fear. Part of the "Jack Loki, Tourist" arc.

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Geranium Lake Properties, Caves of Fear, Part 2

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Geranium Lake Properties, Caves of Fear, Part 1

Jack Loki puts on his spelunker's hat and visits the Caves of Fear.

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Geranium Lake Properties, "A bronze man still can tell stories his own way."

This is a repeat of one of my favorite early GLP panels. This is not the original title but I was listening to Chicago's "Saturday in the Park" and the universe told me the "bronze man" is significant. I tried googling the lyric to find out who the bronze man is, but didn't find anything except one person's opinion that it refers to the statue of William Shakespeare in New York's Central Park. According to Wikipedia, a day in Central Park is what inspired Robert Lamm to write the lyrics.

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Geranium Lake Properties, A Dream of the Coffee Table Spirit

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Geranium Lake Properties, Jack Loki, Tourist

"Jack Loki puts on his beret and goes to the art museum, part 2."

From the series, Jack Loki, Tourist. The last jackalope on Earth leaves his desert home and travels incognito, wearing the appropriate hat for his disguise.

Wm. Yost never specifies which desert Jack occupies. I can imagine him in a Chuck Jones-designed landscape, with the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote as neighbors. Or within galloping distance of Needles, California, where Jack has scraped up an acquaintance with Snoopy's cousin, Spike.

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Geranium Lake Properties, "Une fois de plus, nous devons réaligner sur petits gants de puissance."

Online comics are published here every Tuesday and Thursday, and occasionally Sunday.

Geranium Lake Properties, retractions refused

Today and Sunday will be the last days of our summer repeats. Tuesday, August 19, I will begin
posting new panels of GLP regularly. The expected schedule will be every Tuesday and Thursday
for new cartoons. On Sunday, but not every Sunday, I will continue with my favorites of previously
posted GLP panels.

I am still relying on a very old laptop computer. It has always been my style to use limited technology, including limitations imposed by financial costs, but I am suffering a little from the lack of access to my desktop computer. It too is an old computer, which broke down last spring, and remains an inert block caging 40 gigabytes of inaccessible data. Within that data is my asemic comic book, The Fourth Labor of Elmer Olpuk, which includes two additional short comics (one of them is The Friends of Sazzie Nan). Because of critical family matters, I have not had the time to resolve that little crisis, and because of lack of funds, I do not now have the inclination.

Geranium Lake Properties, "Truth is, Yhadda Skenfal."

New cartoon today! Not a repeat!

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

Geranium Lake Properties, return to Hila Station

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

Geranium Lake Properties, reassembling what's left

GLP is an online cartoon published every Tuesday and Thursday, and occasionally Sunday, but I am posting this tonight because tomorrow I have house guests arriving.

Geranium Lake Properties, the oriole's house

Fresh new cartoon today! Not a repeat!

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

Geranium Lake Properties, revenge of the glaziers

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

Geranium Lake Properties, weather report

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

Geranium Lake Properties, refitting one flitting

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

Geranium Lake Properties, review a semi-arid margin

Summer schedule: GLP is an online cartoon published every Tuesday and Thursday, and occasionally Sunday. This panel was supposed to be posted on Tuesday, July 22, but I was too ill. I am feeling so much better today, it's a blessing.

Geranium Lake Properties, return to paraguayan beaches

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

Geranium Lake Properties, quilted recovery

Another early favorite for our summer of repeats.

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

Geranium Lake Properties, lint again

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

Geranium Lake Properties: umber revisited

Geranium Lake Properties: Summer Vacation Schedule

For the rest of July and the larger part of August, I will be making short trips to visit family. I will be able to give the internet my attention only intermittently. For the duration of this "summer vacation", I will be posting panels of Geranium Lake Properties on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They will not be new panels. I will be posting some of my favorites from the early days of GLP. I am doing this partly to reconnect with the spirit of Wm. Yost, the fictional creator of GLP. The satisfying but radical tangent that became The Blues consumed far more time than I at first intended, and although I am delighted with the result of that experiment, I want to take GLP back into its original trajectory.

Geranium Lake Properties, wind chasing moon

The Blues, Final Movement, Canto XXV "World Without Penitence"

Sometimes performed as the Overture. Image can be the back cover of The Last Book.

Geranium Lake Properties, gray area

The Blues, Finale, Canto XXIV "Advent of the Endless Winter"

Geranium Lake Properties, it's the end of the world as we know it

The Blues, Finale, Canto XXIII "The Death of Undfenquathodem"

Geranium Lake Properties, elusive fields

The Blues, Finale, Canto XXII "Life Calls to Life"

Oriol begs Undfenquathodem, the oldest living being, to try one more time to summon the citizens of the Last Empire to join the living world. No one hears the call.

These images were created from a photograph (© Laura J. Wellner, used by permission) found on this tumblr, which hosts many stunning images made by a talented artist with original vision, and an amazing eye for detail.

Geranium Lake Properties, gone to voltage

The Blues, Canto XXI, "Devastation"

Life everywhere flees from Oriol's expression of guilt and despair, terrible emotions
that belong only to Man.

Geranium Lake Properties, no direction home

The Blues, Canto XIX, "The Insanity of Trees"
The Blues, Canto XX, "Wolves Betrayed"

I took a little vacation from the internet, but usually GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday, and occasionally Tuesday. For the next 2 months my schedule might become erratic as I devote some extra time to family matters.

© 2014 lcmt

Geranium Lake Properties, dusky granada

The Blues, Canto XVIII, "Testimony of the Moths"

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." Alice Walker

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

Geranium Lake Properties, pastorale with ensuite bathroom

The Blues, Interlude, "The Aesthetic Dream"

Oriol dreams of a world where no living thing exists, where man lives only in his art and technology. This piece is sometimes performed between the Garden and the Testimonies.

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

Geranium Lake Properties, octagonal zen gavotte

The Blues, Canto XVII, "The Testimony of the Spider Queen"

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Geranium Lake Properties, the first and last trillion

The Blues, Canto XVI, "The Testimony of the Cyanobacteria"

Also called "The Song of Departures" or "The List of Extinction". Sometimes it is sung at the end of the Testimonies.

A note about art and the modern experience: Since my computer expired in April I have been using an old laptop, and all my images have been created with MS Paint. The Blues, An Asemic Opera has been made entirely on MS Paint. In fact, this project would never have come into being if my computer had not broken down.

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

Geranium Lake Properties, a walk on the beach

The Blues, Canto XV, "The Testimony of the Earth and Sea"

Oriol asks for a way mankind can escape their fate foretold in the Oracle of the Buried.

The heart of the planet
is made of iron
and knows nothing of life.
It speaks through fire
and pools of magma.
Sometimes it laughs
at its own unknowable jokes,
erupting in volcanoes
and earthquakes.

The sea is full of life,
it speaks through the hearts
and lungs of whales.
It sings love songs to men
and is spurned with spears
and poison.


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

Geranium Lake Properties, ancient airs and dances

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

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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.

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.