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All Yooped Up

Posted on September 28, 2022 by Nathan

The 2002 Oziana brings back some of the same authors as the last issue, but with less original art. Melissa Bay Mathis supplied the cover art, a picture of the Patchwork Girl riding Pigasus, which is relevant to one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Art, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Edward Einhorn, Food, Fred Otto, Games, Gina Wickwar, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged an oz cliffhanger, armadillos, button-bright, cap'n bill, cat and mouse in oz, cats, catty corners, cowardly lion, crows, dorothy gale, dot and tot of merryland, emerald city, giants, glinda, hawks, hungry tiger, j. l. bell, joe bongiorno, lin carter, magic picture, margaret koontz, margie deemer, melissa bay mathis, mermaids, merryland, mice, milk, mr. yoop, mrs. yoop, opodock, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, ozma sees herself, patchwork girl, pearls of pingaree, pigasus, pingaree, pirates in oz, professor wogglebug, rabbits, sawhorse, scarecrow, sky island, the lost emeralds of oz, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the merry mountaineer of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the other searches for the lost princess of oz, the road to oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tippetarius in oz, tititi-hoochoo, truth pond, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, woot meets yoop, woot the wanderer, zim greenleaf | Leave a comment

The Enchanted Garden of Sedj

Posted on August 3, 2022 by Nathan

The 1994 Oziana has two stories that were written for the Oz Story Circle, run by Fred Meyer. I was a member back then, but it would take twenty more years for something I wrote around that time to appear … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Chronicles of Narnia, Dennis Anfuso, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged allison mcbain, benjamin fang, bill eubank, billy bumble of oz, buckethead in oz, bumble, cap'n bill, clowns, cory in oz, cowardly lion, dennis anfuso, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dot and tot of merryland, dragons, fred meyer, ghostbusters, ghosts, ghosts in oz, glinda, great book of records, international wizard of oz club, jack pumpkinhead, jane albright, jellia jamb, kimberly doyle, leprechauns in oz, lurline, magic belt, margaret berg, marie candler richardson, mark haas, merryland, nine tiny piglets, notta bit more, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, professor grunter swyne, puns, robin olderman, scarecrow, simon t. inphinium, squealina swyne, teenty-weent, the cowardly lion of oz, the last battle, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the silver jug, the tin woodman of oz, the winged monkeys of oz, the witch queen of oz, tin woodman, witches, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

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

Automa-Tons of Fun

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Nathan

During a discussion of Ozma of Oz at the most recent OzCon International, Lee Speth proposed that, while Tik-Tok was not the first mechanical man in modern literature, he was perhaps the first artificial intelligence. L. Frank Baum himself had … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged aa the salt sorcerer, artificial intelligence, auto-dragons, captain battery batt, cast-iron man, clank, clocker, clockwise, dot and tot of merryland, entropy, fred meyer, giant with the hammer, henry blossom, hundred-year alarm clock, jack breton, kadj the conjurer, king scowleyow, ku-klip, larry breton, little pink bear, mooj, mr. split, ozma of oz, ozwoz, pirates in oz, r.k. lionel, red jinn, robert pattrick, robots, smith and tinker, the braided man of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the master crafters of oz, the ork in oz, the purple prince of oz, the runaway in oz, the salt sorcerer of oz, the wicked witch of oz, thi, tik-tok, wizard of oz | 2 Comments

Save Your Drama for the Yamas

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Nathan

Yama Yama Land: Where Everything Is Different, by Grace Duffie Boylan, illustrated by Edgar Keller – There were several books released in the early twentieth century that were largely imitative of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, both in story and … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Buddhism, Fairy Tales, Hinduism, L. Frank Baum, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged ada jones, bessie mccoy, bogeyman, collin davis, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dot and tot of merryland, edgar keller, eva katherine gibson, grace duffie boylan, grampa in oz, hollow earth, karl hoschna, north pole, reilly and britton, the three twins, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yama yama man, w. w. denslow, yama, yama yama land | 3 Comments

Princess of Power

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Nathan

In case you didn’t know, Ozma’s birthday was on Sunday, so I should probably write an Ozma-centered entry. I know I’ve discussed the ruler’s magical powers in the past, but I can’t find a post where I did so. Since … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged conjo, david hulan, dot and tot of merryland, fairies, fairy beavers, general blug, general guph, glinda of oz, high ki of twi, jellia jamb, kabumpo in oz, king terribus of spor, magic picture, magic wands, mimics, mrs. yoop, nomes, ozma, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, polychrome, prince marvel, queen aquareine, queen dolly, rinkitink in oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the lost king of oz, the magic carpet of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the sea fairies, the shaggy man of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonder city of oz, tommy kwikstep, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer | 3 Comments

Everybody Gets a Crown

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Nathan

Someone recently asked me whether Betsy Bobbin and Trot were ever made princesses within the Oz series. L. Frank Baum never gives them this title, and neither does Ruth Plumly Thompson in her earlier books, but she does in later … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged a princess of oz, betsy bobbin, betsy bobbin in yartralia, bucky jones, cap'n joe weedles, david hulan, dorothy gale, dot and tot of merryland, evered of rash, handy mandy in oz, jenny jump, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kaliko, king cheeriobed, lucky bucky in oz, merry go round in oz, nomes, ozma, ozma of oz, ozmapolitan, peter brown, prince philador, princes, princesses, queen dolly of merryland, quick city, robin brown, roundabout, scarecrow, sky island, speedy, speedy in oz, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the sea fairies, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tippetarius, tippetarius in oz, trot griffiths | 7 Comments

Names for the Nameless

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Nathan

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, there aren’t that many characters with proper names. Even the ones who do have them tend not to have last names. The stage play gave Dorothy a last name and the Tin Woodman a … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Fred Otto, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Peter Clarke, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adam nicolai, alexander volkov, aunt em, captain fyter, cayke the cookie cook, charles phipps, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dot and tot of merryland, dr. pipt, eric gjovaag, fairy beavers, frogman, good witch of the north, guardian of the gates, henry blossom, hungry tiger, james howe, jim vander noot, john dough and the cherub, kalidahs, karyl carlson, lin carter, mark haas, names, nine tiny piglets, paul dana, queen zixi of ix, rob roy macveigh, scarecrow, shaggy man, the emerald city of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the road to oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, uncle henry, wam, winged monkeys, wizard of oz | 6 Comments

Gee-Whiz, More Oz!

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Nathan

I am now the proud owner of the 2014 Oziana, the fiction magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club. This issue contains six stories about Oz, starting with David Tai and Jared Davis‘ “Lost and Never Found,” in which … Continue reading →

Posted in Edward Einhorn, Eric Shanower, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged aaron solomon adelman, abby, alexander volkov, david tai, dot and tot of merryland, dr. pipt, emerson hough, gilbert sprague, hank the mule, international wizard of oz club, j. l. bell, jinjur, joe bongiorno, kabumpo, kim mcfarland, labor of love, lost and never found, magic land, merryland, oziana, patchwork girl, rob zombie in oz, roselawn, scarecrow, tempus the parrot-ox, the king of gee-whiz, the new fellow, the patchwork bride of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, urfin jus, wilbur d. nesbit | 2 Comments

Coronation Cameos

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Nathan

I first watched Return to Oz around when it came out on video, and while I quite enjoyed it, I wasn’t familiar with the source material at that point. Now, of course, I’m very familiar with it, and one interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged allegro da capo, billina, braided man, bumpy man, button-bright, cap'n bill, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dot and tot of merryland, glinda, guardian of the gates, gump, jack pumpkinhead, king rinkitink, magic flower, mr. joker, notta bit more, ozma, ozma of oz, patchwork girl, professor wogglebug, return to oz, scarecrow, shaggy man, the cowardly lion of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the road to oz, the wizard of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, toto | 6 Comments

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