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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

Purple Horse, Pink Goat, Blue Woozy

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Nathan

Scan by Jared Davis The 1992 Oziana gives us a rather striking cover illustration, a picture by Eric Shanower of the Wicked Witch of the East as she realizes she’s about to be crushed by a house. “A Christmas Tree … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Christmas, Comics, Eric Shanower, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a christmas tree for dorothy, afterlife, bill eubank, blue emperor, brent peddy, christmas trees, cindy jen, daniel han, david maxine, deepa mehta, dorothy gale, dorothy's christmas tree, emerald city, everett avila, fred meyer, gayelette, goats, henry blossom, high boy, horses, joe mcsweeney, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kingdom of dreams, krizzle kroo, lurline, magic mistake bag, nicole bent, oziana, ozma, pastoria, professor nowitall, ricky blount, robin olderman, sandman, santa claus, scarecrow, shaune anderson, stars, the blue emperor of oz, the giant horse of oz, the journey, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the silver princess in oz, the tail of the pink goat, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tin woodman, w. w. denslow, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, wizards, woozy | 2 Comments

Get Reel

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Nathan

Since the 1989 Oziana is more movie-based, it shouldn’t be too surprising that it’s not a favorite of mine, but I have some things to say about it anyway. “Biozonnet 1,” by Robin Olderman – The editor presents a poem … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Dreams, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry | Tagged biozonnet 1, chris sterling, chuck sabatos, dorothy gale, follow the other brick road, forest of gugu, fred meyer, gayelette, glinda, good witch of the north, john fricke, oziana, quizzes, rated g for glinda, rhinoceroses, rob roy macveigh, robert b. luehrs, robin olderman, roger phillips, susan hall, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, there's no place like oz, toto, wam, yellow brick road | 2 Comments

Gone with the Northeast Wind

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Nathan

The 1988 Oziana has a game on both the front and back cover, derived by Fred Meyer and drawn by Bill Eubank. For each of fifty different transformations, the player has to guess who was transformed into what. I like … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Camilla Townsend, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Eric Shanower, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Poetry, Relationships, Star Trek, Technology | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, a side view of the nonestic islands, angela garvey garvey, army, aunt em, betsy bobbin, bill eubank, break dance, corwin davison poe, dorothy gale, fairies, fred meyer, frogman, h.p. lovecraft, hungry tiger, king evoldo of ev, li-mon-eags, limericks, magic belt, martha cornog, mcwogglebug, military, neal wilgus, omby amby, oziah prendergast gillikin iiii, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, patchwork girl, polychrome, professor wogglebug, scarecrow, smith and tinker, spock, stuff and nonsense, the blue raindrops of oz, the computer wizard makes a comeback, the magic of oz, the northeast wind in oz, thorgose, tik-tok, timothy perper, tin woodman, tollydiggle, trot griffiths, two's of a kind, typhonic, ventilation, wendy roth, winds, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Threadneedle, Frost, Brown, and Smith, Limited

Posted on June 8, 2022 by Nathan

The 1987 Oziana contains four stories, one much shorter than the others, all of which are of the sort that complement the main series. The front cover shows Melody Grandy’s illustration of Robin Olderman’s idea for the Quadling flag. A note … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Board Games, Characters, Dice, Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Melody Grandy, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Pachisi, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bill eubank, bill stillman, blankenburg, button-bright, button-bright and the knit-wits of oz, chris sterling, cookywitches, dorothy gale, flags, fred meyer, fuddlecumjig, glinda, jack frost, james e. haff, jim vander noot, knit-wits, knitting, laughing valley of hohaho, oziana, parcheesi, peter brown, pirates in oz, polychrome, professor wogglebug, puns, robin olderman, stichwell j. threadneedle, sugarene, the blizzard of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the ice king of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost king of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the other searches for the lost princess, the runaway shadows, the two peters, the woggle-bug's new clothes, thumbumbia, tippetarius, tyler tichelaar | 5 Comments

This Was Once a Local, But It’s Now an Express

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Nathan

With the 1972 Oziana, we start with a cover drawn by Tony Moses, showing several Oz characters attending what appears to be a fair. The Cowardly Lion is sitting and reading The Annotated Alice, and the Woozy floating away with … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Prejudice | Tagged adrienne martinez, brian baker, cowardly lion, diana merryman, dragons, flying carpets, fred meyer, hedgehogs, it's tuesday this must be oz, jeff freedman, jokesville, kalidahs, magic carpet, mary reynolds, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, racism, scraps and the cruel kalidah, sherwood smith, the disenchanted princess of oz, the magic dishpan of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tin woodman, tony moses, wizard of oz, woozy | 2 Comments

Scraps on the Run

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Nathan

The Runaway in Oz, by John R. Neill – Before Neill’s death in 1943, he had completed a manuscript for this, his fourth Oz book. He hadn’t finished the illustrations, however, and that and other factors led to its not … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Dreams, Eric Shanower, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships | Tagged alexample, books of wonder, fanny the weather witch, fred meyer, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, lucky bucky in oz, patchwork girl, popla, professor wogglebug, quinces, robert pattrick, spoolicle, the emerald city of oz, the runaway in oz, the wonder city of oz, twinkler, witches | 2 Comments

What Would Baum Do?

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Nathan

The Autumn 2019 Baum Bugle has an old article by the late Fred Meyer, which I think I’d seen some version of before, postulating on what L. Frank Baum might have written if he’d lived longer. Obviously we can never … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged an oz book, captain fyter, forest of gugu, fred meyer, frogman, glinda of oz, great waterfall, kingdom of dreams, lake quad, oziana, policeman bluejay, polychrome, rinkitink in oz, skeezers, the baum bugle, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tik-tok of oz, twinkle tales, yips | Leave a comment

You’re in Luck

Posted on August 4, 2019 by Nathan

I’d thought before about how the appellation “lucky” is applied to so many Oz characters. Well, only three that I can think of, but that’s still kind of weird. They were introduced by three different authors, however. The first is … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Authors, Characters, Comics, Discworld, Greek Mythology, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Religion, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged atreyu, carl barks, cereal, charles lindbergh, davy jones the wooden whale, deadpool, deadpool 2, domino, donald duck, dragons, falkor, fate, fortuna, fortune, fred meyer, fred otto, fuchur, fukuryu, giants, gladstone gander, interesting times, jenny jump, lady luck, leif erikson, leprechauns, leprechauns in oz, loxo the lucky, luck, luck dragon, luck o' the irish, lucky bucky in oz, lucky bucky jones, lucky charms, lucky the leprechaun, margolotte, mark haas, michael ende, ojo, ojo in oz, oziana, prince pompadore, prince pompadore in oz, probability, psychopompus, rincewind, speedy in oz, the colour of magic, the forbidden cave of grapelandia, the lady, the last hero, the neverending story, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wonder city of oz, tyche, x-force, zazie beetz, zim greenleaf of oz | 1 Comment

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

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The Enchanted Garden of Sedj

Purple Horse, Pink Goat, Blue Woozy

Get Reel

Gone with the Northeast Wind

Threadneedle, Frost, Brown, and Smith, Limited

This Was Once a Local, But It’s Now an Express

Scraps on the Run

What Would Baum Do?

You’re in Luck

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