Category Archives: Jack Snow

The Missing Crinklink

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

I’ve been looking recently at how the Wizard of Oz is portrayed throughout the Oz series, and this Lit Brick comic offers another good example of the character being a jerk, and oddly enough it’s known that it’s not entirely … Continue reading →

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The Kids from America

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

Since I recently wrote about possible locations for Superman’s hometown, I might as well do the same for the Americans who ended up in Oz, either to live or just to visit. As might be expected, it’s a combination of … Continue reading →

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Extra Exploration of the Enchantment

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

Picture by Luciano Vecchio There have been several post-canonical Oz books and stories that deal with Lurline’s enchantment, most of them not really agreeing on significant points. As someone who likes to tie together as many sources as I can, … Continue reading →

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Gratuitous Beaver Mythology

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

I’m currently in the process of reading Gregory Maguire’s Out of Oz, and I think it was the brief appearance of some beavers in this book that made me think of researching beaver-related mythology. Beavers are no strangers to the … Continue reading →

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Fun with Fairies

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

As I mentioned in my post on Disney’s Peter Pan, the most popular conception of fairies is that of tiny people with wings, but not all fairy lore uses this idea. In fact, it appears to be a relatively recent … Continue reading →

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Tunnel Vision

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

The Red Jinn in Oz, by Mildred L. Palmer – I’d heard about this book, which was written some time ago, but I’m not sure exactly when. I think it might have been in the fifties or so. Anyway, it … Continue reading →

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My Mother, the Goose

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

While the name “Mother Goose” is now most closely associated with nursery rhymes, it was originally fairy tales that were attributed to the mysterious personage. While Charles Perrault’s 1695 book of fairy tales was properly called Histoires ou contes du … Continue reading →

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The Age of Ozlectricity

Posted on May 10, 2011 by

When I was working on an Oz story back in high school (which, by the way, I never finished, although I incorporated some of the ideas from it into my rough draft for The Royal Crab of Oz), and I … Continue reading →

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H.C. Andersen 360

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, annotated by Maria Tatar – This book, with notes by the same person who did The Annotated Brothers Grimm, was a gift from Tavie. I’d read some of Andersen’s stories before, but many of them … Continue reading →

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