Category Archives: Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry

Baum’s Birthday Blowout

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Nathan

Yesterday was L. Frank Baum’s birthday, and the day before that, Michael Booth set up a virtual event to celebrate. There weren’t that many attendees, but it included presentations, and I’m too disorganized and socially awkward to arrange something like … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, Chris Dulabone, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aging, death, enilrul, hank and the scarecrow of oz, immortality, imps, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead and the sawhorse, little dorothy and toto, lurline, michael booth, ojo and the woozy, oz film manufacturing company, ozma and the little wizard, philip john lewin, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, robert pattrick, sky island, squirrel king, the lavender bear of oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the patchwork girl of oz, the three imps of oz, tim tucker, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

You Oughta Be in Pictures

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Nathan

When I wrote my review of The Wonder City of Oz, Marc Berezin mentioned that he thought John R. Neill had written some of it to make use of pre-existing art. Repurposing his art is definitely a thing Neill did; … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Celtic, Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bears, betsy bobbin, captain salt, cayke the cookie cook, comfortable camel, davy jones the wooden whale, dorothy gale, emerald city, fairies, firefly fairies, glinda of oz, guardian of the gates, jellia jamb, jenny jump, jinjur, john dough and the cherub, kabumpo, kelpies, lake quad, leprechauns, lucky bucky in oz, mushrooms, nomes, number nine, ojo in oz, omby amby, ozma, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, peg amy, princess marygolden, professor wogglebug, psychopompus, sir hokus of pokes, snufferbux, sorcerers, spy-ders, the baum bugle, the runaway in oz, the scalawagons of oz, the voice of bong, the wonder city of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok, trot griffiths, wizard of oz | 3 Comments

Mean Squirrels

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Nathan

I saw a squirrel in a graveyard last weekend. That’s not really that strange, as Green-Wood Cemetery is also an arboretum, so it gets a lot of wildlife. Still, a squirrel around gravestones made me think of the Skull Eaters … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Beatrix Potter, Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Sonic the Hedgehog, Television, Video Games | Tagged chipmunks, conker the squirrel, conker's bad fur day, cyril, diddy kong racing, dixie kong, donald duck, donkey kong jungle beat, dr. ivo robotnik, dragon quest of the stars, final fantasy ix, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, flurl the squirrel, flying squirrels, freedom fighters, green-wood cemetery, jack pumpkinhead, jack pumpkinhead and the sawhorse, kaori tanaka, little wizard stories of oz, new super mario bros. u, nutkins, princess sally acorn, ray the flying squirrel, relm arrowny, sabin rene figaro, segasonic the hedgehog, skull eaters, squirrel king, squirrels, strago magus, the lavender bear of oz, the tale of squirrel nutkin, tiny kong | 4 Comments

Christmas, Toys, and Oz

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Nathan

I might do a re-read of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus this year, seeing as how I have the new edition with Eric Shanower’s illustrations. I guess it depends on how soon I finish the library books I … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, Christmas, Eric Shanower, Holidays, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Toys | Tagged bear center, doll island, dolls, dot and tot of merryland, fairies, fuddles, handy mandy in oz, hoopers, jack-in-the-box, john dough and the cherub, jumping jacks, kabumpo in oz, lavender bear, lost islands, merryland, miss cuttenclip, mr. split, peg amy, queen dolly, rockaway island, santa claus, scoodlers, sport, squee gees, squeek, teddy bears, the curious cruise of captain santa, the emerald city of oz, the lavender bear of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the shaggy man of oz, topsies, twiffle, twoffle | 3 Comments

Button-Bright Illumination

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Nathan

The other day, I came across a link to this bit of Oz fanfiction about Polychrome finding Button-Bright in Philadelphia and taking him to Mo. It fills in some gaps in his story, since The Scarecrow of Oz has him … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, button-bright, christmas in oz, grandma natch, jack frost, jeremy steadman, magic umbrella, margaret berg, martin gardner, mary poppins, ojo, outsiders from oz, p.l. travers, paul dana, polychrome, red jinn, robin hess, snow queen, the emerald ring of oz, the glass dog, the lost boy of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the road to oz, the scarecrow of oz, the visitors from oz, twin properties, Vaughn Smythe | 5 Comments

Fantastic Function Follows Form

Posted on October 21, 2016 by Nathan

Hugh Pendexter III’s article on magic in Ruth Plumly Thompson’s Oz books, which was printed in the Autumn 1978 Baum Bugle, notes, “It seems wise to distinguish between magical technology, in which magic tools and devices imitate the advances of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Hugh Pendexter, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aphrodite, big wigs, brooms, great book of records, invisibility cloaks, ku-klip, looking glasses, magic belt, magic dishpan, magic picture, margaret berg, masquerade in oz, mustafa of mudge, percy and the shrinking violet, puns, queen zixi of ix, rash rubies, seven-league boots, shrinking violets, silver hammer, silver shoes, talismans, the baum bugle, the giant horse of oz, the magic of oz, the tin woodman of oz, thinking cap, tools, umbrellas, wicked witch of the east, wishes, wizard of oz | 5 Comments

Oz Fish

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Nathan

Although L. Frank Baum wrote a fantasy taking place under the sea and referenced it a few times in the Oz books, he really didn’t say that much about aquatic life in Oz and its surrounding nations. In Glinda of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a-b-sea serpent, captain salt, captain salt in oz, crimson-tailed quipperug, emerald city, fish, flying fish, glenn ingersoll, glinda of oz, king arthur, lady water lily, lake orizon, lake quad, loch ness monster, lucky bucky in oz, masquerade in oz, mermaids, monkey-fish, narwhal, nonestic ocean, octopuses, octopuss, patchwork girl, quaddle, quiberon, rattlesnake, roger the read bird, sea serpent, seeweegia, sherwood smith, tazander tazah of ozamaland, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the giant horse of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the secret island of oz, tin woodman, turtles | 2 Comments

Keeping the Palace Running

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Nathan

As egalitarian as Ozma and her court might try to be, it is a sad fact that the palace staff is largely ignored, with the occasional exception of Ozma’s personal maid Jellia Jamb. The most complete count of the staff … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged allison mcbain, betsy bobbin, dorothy and the wizard in oz, ghosts in oz, gilbert sprague, hugh pendexter, jellia jamb, jim the cab-horse, marie candler richardson, masquerade in oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, the nome king's shadow in oz, the road to oz, the wishing horse of oz, wooglet in oz | 4 Comments

Stork Watch

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Nathan

Storks appear from time to time in the Oz series and related books. In Dot and Tot of Merryland, the third valley is where white storks take care of babies, which drop into the valley in blossoms. In order to … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Dennis Anfuso, German, L. Frank Baum, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Peter Clarke | Tagged a promise kept in oz, a small adventure in oz, dot and tot of merryland, glinda, maetta, merryland, princess truella of mo, scarecrow, storks, the lavender bear of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the wonderful wizard of oz | 1 Comment

Category Archives: Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry

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