Travesty Is A Verb: Missing Pages
“Triple/Triad Goddesses” was what Yost had written in the Two Teddy Bears Journal under the heading “TIAV Masks”. An arrow indicates that this is a description of a mural in the Other Space Museum on Eleanorel Avenue in Los Angeles. Or more likely, the mural is in the museum’s coffee house*, since that is the setting of a story in which “5 characters meet at the Other Space Museum Coffee…
A Package from Terror Addams Part Two
I did not mention (in my last post) this other item that Terror Addams included in their package because it deserved a post of its own*. I am thrilled to reveal that the archive now owns a copy of the impossible-to-find first-ever Geranium Lake Properties coloring book!
To celebrate this announcement, I am posting four pages from the coloring book for you to download and color, including the…
Spring Cleaning
A previously unknown collaboration between Yost and Teradactyl “Terror” Addams.
A package arrived at the GLP archive last week. The archive was closed at the time. I imagine the sign on the front door said “Closed For Spring Cleaning” in a bold, cheerful typeface, something with serifs, like Cooper Black. (Is the presence of serifs somehow friendlier than their absence?) This sign will appear on…
Five Carthaginian Bodhisattvas
Consolation
According to Ha Kim Ngoc, there should be at least sixteen Geranium Lake Properties comics marked in some manner with the abbreviation 5CB, but it is no surprise to me that projects pertaining to the Five Carthaginian Bodhisattvas cannot be easily found in the archive. After years of delving through its labyrinthine depths, the archive still manages to confound me, sometimes to a…
Darn It! Late Again
Yesterday morning, while browsing through files of unpublished images in the Geranium Lake Properties archive, I came across these two panels with their depictions of the moon and the sun. How perfect it would have been if I had posted them on Monday, for the eclipse!
The style of the above mask is called uk-wayyalyaryar, “the moon exploded”, or uk-weezeeggut, “moonburst”, in Inultarumek.…
A Mask of the Eyrillim
First off, I think this might help: Eyrillim is the plural, Eyrilmonghet is the singular. Eyrillim is the Inultaru name used for members of an egg-collecting (and egg-selling) guild.*
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Holy Fool
After six years of constancy, the roster of players in the band Immanis et Inanis changed several times between 1985 and 1994, when they finally broke apart and declared that the band was entering into an undefined hiatus. The hiatus lasted four years. The band reformed in 1998 with six of the original members, missing only Stan Mix (pianist/organist), who had died of cancer in 1995, at age…
Springing Along
The equinox came and went a few days ago, but spring had been springing along for at least a month before that. We had a mild, wet winter, so the meadows (that were lawns long ago) are lush with grasses and weeds.
It Pours
Two posts in the same day! I have been saving these coloring pages for a rainy day activity, and right now I am waiting for the forecasted deluge to start. We have been promised thunderstorms! Thunder is a rare natural occurrence here. Sure, we get plenty of house-shaking rumbles from Mr. Musk shooting off his Space X fireworks every few weeks, but for some reason, we don’t get a lot of lightning…
The Height of Wit
From 2014: My Big Fat Hypergraphic Object
We’ve had some funny moments on this blog in the past ten years. You may have missed them, my sense of humor can be subtle sometimes. Other times, not very.
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Living in a Black and White World
Digging through the mazy warren that is the Geranium Lake Properties archive, I have unearthed several files dedicated to GLP comics that appeared in various zines, amateur fanworks and DIY media. Most of them were printed in black and white, and the two illustrations in this post were from a chapter in Words and Word Balloons, a thick (216 pages!) book-sized zine from ZC Pictorials*, edited by…
Socrates Would Appreciate a Good Wurncheolf
Today is the holiday we call Dpajormymy, and here in this unpublished Geranium Lakes Properties comic we have Kordeyn Guhtellop, the Three Nights demalion, wearing a Dpajor mask. Or is it Dpajor wearing a Kordeyn Guhtellop mask?
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Dependent Arising
This is an image of Yost’s final version for the album cover* of The Empty Space, the second album from Chansons de Geste. Which was the side project of two members of Bury Me Standing, Teri Ainsworth and Ross Kerrinza. I intended to make three posts last year about the progress of this design but I was distracted by other projects. I still hope, with crossed fingers, to post the third part…
