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Serious About Series

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Nathan

I’ve finished reading the latest issue of The Baum Bugle, which is largely dedicated to Kabumpo in Oz. Editor Sarah Crozter co-wrote a piece with Nick Campbell on the book and Oz as a series in general. I’ve seen a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Characters, Christmas, Cults, Discworld, Dr. Seuss, Families, Games, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett, Toys | Tagged allison mcbain, black gold saya, cora-lee marcus, cory in oz, curious cottabus, dinosaurs, edward eager, fabia, fumaro, garrett kilgore, glinda, halloween island, i am jinjur, international wizard of oz club, jinjur, jonathan markoff, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kalidahs, kaliko, kuma party, limbo, lin carter, mary austin, nick campbell, nome king, nomes, on beyond zebra, ozma, ozma of oz, ozwold, pigasus, radiation, sarah crozter, teddy bears, the baum bugle, the gnome king of oz, the green glass castle, the man who didn't believe in christmas, the tired tailor of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, transformation, wizard of oz, writing, wumbo | 4 Comments

Heffalumps and Woozies

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Nathan

After two years when it just wasn’t possible, we finally had an in-person OzCon International this year. It was in Pomona, California again, and it was one day and some change, so I initially thought it wouldn’t make sense to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Atticus Gannaway, Celebrities, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a day in oz, american fairy tales, ashley chase, billina, bunbury, butterflies, cindy ragni, colin ayres, cowardly lion, dina schiff massachi, dogs, dorothy gale, eric gjovaag, erica olivera, freddy fogarty, geoffrey l. gould, glenn roberson, insects, j. l. bell, judy garland, kabumpo in oz, liberace, nate barlow, naya rivera, oz film manufacturing company, ozcon international, oziana, ozma of oz, polychrome, prince pompadore, return to oz, sam milazzo, steve cox, the emerald city of oz, the glass dog, the master key, the patchwork girl of oz, the real critics, the tik-tok man of oz, the wiz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, toto, woozy | 7 Comments

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

Dark and Shuttered

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Nathan

This week, we’re taking a look at the 1991 Oziana. Well, what else did you expect after the 1990 issue? The cover by Chris Sterling shows the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman putting on a puppet show, with each one controlling a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Families, Fred Otto, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a cozy castle in oz, afterlife, beach blanket babyloz, big enough mountain, charles martensen, chris sterling, christopher wayne buckley, death, earl abbe, ev, fairness, fred otto, glinda, great book of records, haiku, johnny dooit, kabumpo in oz, loxo the lucky, mission impozible, nome king, nomes, omby amby, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, pyrzqxgl, ray bradbury, robin olderman, scarecrow, shutter town, something wicked this way comes, speedy in oz, the emerald city of oz, the forbidden cave of grapelandia, the giant horse of oz, the magic of oz, tik-tok of oz, timmy and the shutter faces in oz, tin woodman, water of oblivion, who's who in oz, woot the wanderer | 1 Comment

Ho Ho, Kerumph!

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Nathan

Kabumpo in Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – You get two Oz posts in a row this week, because I’ve finished rereading this book for its hundredth anniversary. Thompson’s second Oz book is a clear improvement over her first, and Kabumpo … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged dolls, elephants, emerald city, fairies, faleero, glegg, gnomes, illumi nation, jack pumpkinhead, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, luis ricardo falero, marriage, nome king, nomes, ozma, peg amy, prince pompadore, pumperdink, puns, rabbits, rith metic, tin woodman, trees, trot griffiths, twigs, wag the rabbit, water of oblivion, witches, wizard of oz | 5 Comments

Conquest by Computer

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Nathan

The 1986 Oziana is the first issue I ever read, even though it was around 1993 when I did so. I just started out by ordering the earliest one the Oz Club was offering at the time. The cover here … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Christmas, Games, Holidays, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, bini aru, blair boudreau, corwin davison poe, easter bunny, edgar allan poe, emerald city, fairies, forbidden fountain, frosty the snowman, glinda, grinch, how the grinch stole christmas, hungry tiger, jack pumpkinhead, kabumpo in oz, kiki aru, laughing valley of hohaho, little bun rabbit, mother goose in prose, mount munch, mrs. claus, much ado about kiki aru, nome king, north pole, old mother hubbard, oziah prendergast gillikin iiii, oziana, ozma, pyrzqxgl, richard capwell, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, santa claus in oz, sean patrick duffley, sir hokus of pokes, smith and tinker, the easter bunny of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the magic of oz, tik-tok, tim hollis, trot griffiths, water of oblivion, wilbur canard, wizard of oz | 6 Comments

The South Will Oz Again

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Nathan

As mentioned in the introduction, the cover picture of the 1980 Oziana, as drawn by Albert Chronic, references a passage in Captain Salt in Oz, specifically when the Captain says that the Wizard of Oz is building airships that would … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Food, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a study in orange, agga-groo, albert chronic, appearance, captain salt in oz, colonel cotton in oz, cowardly lion, dixie, edith hollister, g. mohrman, glegg, grampa in oz, great detective, how the cowardly lion met the hungry tiger, hungry tiger, judy bieber, kabumpo in oz, king gugu, miss cuttenclip, ozamaland, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, question box, ragbad, ragej, railroads, samandra, sherlock holmes, the magic of oz, the sea fairies, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tim hollis, toto | 6 Comments

Coping with Immortality

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Nathan

We’re up to the 1978 Oziana, with a cover by Bill Eubank that appears to be partially based on a John R. Neill illustration from Kabumpo in Oz. Then there’s an Oz-E-Gag by Eubank, comparing The Wizard of Oz to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Comics, Games, History, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged atlantis, bears, bees, beyond the rainbow, bill eubank, bronson pinchot, clara jean curzon, daniel k. cox, dave billman, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, ereol, espa, fairies, forest of burzee, george lucas, george van buren, gili bar-hillel, glinda, glinda of oz, great detective, harry mongold, how ducky!, hugo ball, immigration, immortality, in other lands than oz, jay delkin, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, johanna buchner, joseph campbell, julius caesar, kabumpo in oz, latin, lau shiu fan, luke skywalker, lurline, magic belt, magic picture, menankypoo, number nine, ojo, orks, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, paul ritz, pillars of hercules, pin-up, pixies, plato, princess leia, queen coo-ee-oh, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, sawhorse, scraps' ditty, shaggy man, sherlock holmes, talking heads, the adventure of the missing belt, the green dolphin of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's sticky end, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tippetarius in oz, tollydiggle, toto, transformation, vincent ward, water of oblivion, wizards, woozy, zim greenleaf, zimbo and the magic amulet, zimboobo | 4 Comments

Fact Within Fiction

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Nathan

It’s a strange thing to me that a world presented in a work of fiction can be basically just like ours, except without that work, and often related ones, existing in it, even if it’s very popular in the real … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Comics, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, becky klein, bob up, button-bright, david hulan, david perry, dorothy gale, emerald city, glinda, jenny jump, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, lucky bucky in oz, lucky bucky jones, marvel comics, nome king, notta bit more, ojo in oz, ozma, ozmapolitan, patchwork girl, peter brown, polychrome, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, red jinn, shaggy man, sky island, spider-man, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the glass cat of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the tik-tok man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonder city of oz, tik-tok of oz, tippetarius in oz, tompy terry, trot griffiths, twink and tom jones, walt mcdougall, wizard of oz, yankee, yankee in oz | 6 Comments

Whether Nero to Me or Far

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Nathan

An Excess of Enchantments, by Craig Shaw Gardner – The second book in the Ballad of Wuntvor trilogy, there just wasn’t as much to this one as to earlier volumes. Pretty much the whole thing was based around Mother Duck’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, craig shaw gardner, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Rick Riordan, Roman, Roman Empire, Ruth Plumly Thompson, seanan mcguire, Trials of Apollo, Video Games, Wayward Children | Tagged a difficulty with dwarves, an excess of enchantment, apollo, art of mana, cats, curious cottabus, down among the sticks and bones, dragons, dwarves, every heart a doorway, falkor, final fantasy adventure, flammie, giants, kabumpo in oz, meg mccaffrey, neko, nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus, niccolo, puss in boots, python, secret of mana, the ballad of wuntvor, the neverending story, the tower of nero, troglodytes, vampires, wolves, wuntvor, zeus | 5 Comments

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