Lin Tarczynski

Wm. Yost was the creator of a daily comic published in newspapers from 1983 to 2001. He is also a fictitious character I created to facilitate the fusion of asemic writing, visual poetry, mythopoeia and world-building that is Geranium Lake Properties. A large part of Yost’s comic was drawn in a conventional style with traditional comic strip narratives, easily recognized as a “funny animal” comic, and I pay no mind to that part of Yost’s epic. And I sometimes feel no connection to any of Yost’s universe, the universe of Jackalopian culture. Other times, the GLP universe seems to me like the true universe, which is to say, a universe where the stories written in asemic writing are true stories, and I am stuck in this other universe, where our words tell nothing but lies, and worse, the words themselves are merely illusions.

You can read more about Wm. Yost and Jackalopian culture at ablackbrick.tumblr.com.

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Lin Tarczynski is a poet who delights in misusing words, an artist who enjoys making incomprehensible images, then joyfully explaining them with outlandish tales of phantasmagorical creatures. She is also a fictitious character, casting herself as the Unreliable Narrator who haphazardly explains persnickety details about the abstract comics of Geranium Lake Properties while leaving essential (and more fascinating) questions unanswered.