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…
Yesterday morning, while browsing through files of unpublished images in the Geranium Lake Properties archive, I came across these two panels with their depictions of the moon and the sun.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.…
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.* Continue reading A Mask of the Eyrillim
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…
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.
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…
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. Continue reading The Height of Wit
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…
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? Continue reading Socrates Would Appreciate a Good Wurncheolf
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…
I have seen this Geranium Lake Properties comic identified many times as Mother Jackal in her guise as the Rescuer of Witches, so the first thing I want to say is, this mask is NOT THAT. This panel happened in the middle of “The Numerous and Numinous Satisfactions of a Belletrist”, an adventure where everybody in that tale (except Jack Loki and Alice Aroumbeyski) mistook Iffareesha* for Mother…
I felt that I needed to wait until after sunset before I posted the Twelfth Night mask of Kordeyn Guhtellop, the Three Nights demalion. I also expected this would give me enough time to unravel the spurious folklore from the various beliefs entwined around the Three Nights holiday, but I underestimated the difficulties of that task. So we all will have to wait for the night of February 6th for…
In the traditional history (which is more legend than history) of the Inultaru, the ancient nations of their people would use as many as four different calendars to figure out the auspicious days and seasons of the year. In one of those calendars, the Kalyavella* calendar, every month was thirty days long, and in every second year, called Yoremdeyu, December was forty days long, and in every…
The idea for these returns to Christmases past was not much considered and kind of last minute*, so I have no good reason to compel myself to pick between these two Geranium Lake Properties comics for today’s post. The first panel is “The Consanguinity of Midwinter” from 2018, the second is “Christmas in the Neritic Zone” from 2021. *I wanted to remind myself how everything seemed illuminated…
