Welcome to our very, very “secret” page! Very few adventurers had made it this far and there is no turning back now! But enough silliness! We here at CYLS are big fans of Easter Eggs, and for years have been slipping them into our releases. If you have ever looked at the spine of most of our releases, you will see a tiny image near the bottom of the spine. We call this a “Flip Book Image”. Each medium with a spine (mostly CDs and 12” vinyl) contains a series of images, split up between 10 releases. If you line them up on your shelf chronologically, you will see a series of images that vary gradually from one album to the next, so that when the albums (if they could be stacked and flipped like paper) would show pictures that appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change, i.e. a “flip book”. [Credit to good ol’ Wikipedia for the definition that we modified so it fit our purposes]

We’ve done things like a cannibalistic pizza that eats one of his own kind, a snake that scarfs down a delicious, knowledge-filled apple, and a raccoon/toaster combo ala Futurama. And we’re just getting started!

For some series, like the Lady Rainicorn series, lining up the releases in chronological order results in one complete image. Per our example, each album in the set contains 1/10th of Lady Rainicorn, and when all lined up, you see how she soars majestically

Each medium has its own series, so if a release has a CD and a vinyl format, they would both have different images, respectively. Take a gander below to see which albums belong to which series. Try to catch ‘em all!

Choose a character:


The "Anvil Owl" Series

Format: CD
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Summer Months
Joie De Vivre
Each and Everyone
Annabel
Boys' Life
The Reptilian
Summer Fences
Castevet
Perfect Future
Perfect Future
What It Takes To Move Forward
Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate
Rockets
Boris Smile
The North End
Joie De Vivre
Some People Buy Scenery Like This
Mountains For Clouds
My Love Powered by 10,000 Practice Amps
Boris Smile

The "Blooming Flower" Series

Format: CD
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Certain People I Know
Certain People I Know
It's Still Pretty Terrible
Dowsing
We're All Better Than This
Joie De Vivre
Maybe You, No One Else Worth It
Brave Bird
Youth In Youth
Annabel
Low Health
The Reptilian
I Don't Even Care Anymore
Dowsing
Audible
Football, etc.
The Albatross
Foxing
You Will Eventually Be Forgotten
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

The "Music Girl" Series

Format: CD
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Pink Chalk
Zookeeper
Those Days Are Gone
Free Throw
Hello Again
Kittyhawk

The "Bamboozled" Series

Format: Vinyl
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When The Sea Became a Giant
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
I've Lost Everything
Innards
Maybe You, No One Else Worth It
Brave Bird
Youth In Youth
Annabel
How To Draw A River, Step By Step
Rika
Neither Here Nor Thayer
American Thunder Band
Low Health
The Reptilian
Maybe It's Already Everywhere
Mountains For Clouds
I Don't Even Care Anymore
Dowsing
Audible
Football, etc.

The "Cannibal Pizza" Series

Format: Vinyl
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Your Heart Belongs To The Midwest
Warren Franklin
Highway Miles
Kid Brother Collective
Amateurs & Professionals
Penfold
Certain People I Know
Certain People I Know
It's Still Pretty Terrible
Dowsing
Kemosabe
Ape Up!
Old Wounds: Warmth in the Winter of 1914​-​1915
Perfect Future
A Lot of Bad Things Have Happened, But We're Still Here
Two Knights
I Don't Even Care Anymore
Dowsing
Small Changes We Hardly Notice
Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson

The "Raccoon Toaster" Series

Format: Vinyl
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The Albatross
Foxing
One Hundred Dollar Room
Kind of Like Spitting
Naturally
Hightide Hotel
T-Minus Grand Gesture
Brave Bird
Shut Up
Two Knights
You Will Eventually Be Forgotten
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
This Will Come To Pass
Calculator
Pink Chalk
Zookeeper
Manifesto
Perfect Future
Ribbon (Graphic Novel)
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

The "Garden of Eating" Series

Format: Vinyl
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What It Takes To Move Forward
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
Pneuma
Moving Mountains
The North End
Joie De Vivre
Full Health
The Reptilian
The Draft
Football, etc.
I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted
Snowing
Nothing Was Missing, Except Me
Hightide Hotel

The "Lady Rainicorn" Series

Format: Vinyl
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Those Days Are Gone
Free Throw
Hello, Again
Kittyhawk
Nothing Makes Sense Without It
Kind of Like Spitting
Are You A Dreamer?
Denison Witmer