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“Come on! Youse can’ replace me tha’ quickly!” Scooping Pumpkin up, Yancy gave a fake glare at the orange cat, before sighing and putting him down. Doing the ‘I’m watching you’ signal with his fingers at him, as Pumpkin stayed sitting where he set him. “Goddamn lucky youse cute, an’ dumb.”

Looking back to the lump that was his boyfriend, Yancy collapsed atop him. He then started jabbing his fingers into the blankets, attempting to find a spot to tickle Host.

The Death of the Suzerain

Jack Loki, the peripatetic protagonist of the GLP universe, encountered several arch-enemies in his travels, but it the beginning, villains did not trouble his carefree life. Ramon Berenguer, who signed Yost to his first comics syndicate, the McNaught Syndicate, suggested that Yost create a nemesis for Jack Loki. After all, the world would be a much duller place without the Roadrunner’s Coyote,…

If You Want It

Yost used the design of this GLP comic as his Christmas card for several years. In his Christmas cards, along with the personal notes and greetings, Yost always included the line “War is over if you want it.” This is of course a quote from “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” by John Lennon. In the archive, we have three actual cards, including their envelopes, that he sent to people, one from 1989, two…

This panel is the one most misprinted in the history of the Geranium Lake Properties color printing errors. It is accepted as common knowledge that no newspaper, out of the 17 that printed GLP in color, got it right. According to Ha Kim Ngoc, it is Yost’s least favorite misprint, an opinion she expressed to Michael Veerduer at the Strand bookstore, where they were both attending an event…