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A Pound of Man’s Tin

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Nathan

I didn’t get a chance to write about the 1993 Oziana last week, so I’m doing that now. I quite like the cover this time, Bill Eubank’s version of Mount Rushmore with the big four characters, drawn in MGM style. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, William Shakespeare | Tagged bill eubank, chris sterling, chuck sabatos, clouds, cowardly lion, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, everett avila, fairies, glinda, jack pumpkinhead, jubulut, margolotte, money, mount rushmore, nome king, oziana, ozma, peter schulenburg, polychrome, queen zixi of ix, robin olderman, scarecrow, shylock, sky island, smith and tinker, the merchant of oz, the merchant of venice, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the road to oz, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the silver jug, the tin castle of oz, tin woodman, unicorns, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

Zooming with the Wizard

Posted on August 16, 2020 by Nathan

To Oz? To Oz! is the second online Oz event I attended this year, the other being OzCon International. Originally, the International Wizard of Oz Club was going to hold its national convention in upstate New York this weekend, but that … Continue reading →

Posted in Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Games, L. Frank Baum, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Playing Cards, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video | Tagged aaron adelman, anthony whitaker, colin ayres, dina schiff massachi, dorothy gale, eliza wren, garrett kilgore, gayelette, home from oz, international wizard of oz club, j. l. bell, jane albright, jessica south, joseph south, margolotte, nandywog, patchwork girl, pons maar, return to oz, ryan jay, sarah crotzer, sarah crozter, scott cummings, scraps, spirit of oz, strange tale of nursery folk, the purple prince of oz, the runaway shadows and other stories, the wiz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, to oz? to oz!, wheelers, zoe o'haillin-berne, zoom | Leave a comment

We Are Family

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Nathan

This post on the Merry Old Land of Oz Facebook group got me thinking about how most of the kids who visit Oz tend to be only children. Okay, to be fair, it’s possible they have siblings we don’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Dick Martin, Families, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged acinad, alexander volkov, allison mcbain, annie smith, aunt em, betsy bobbin, button-bright, cap'n bill, cap'n bob, christmas in oz, clarence skillet, cory in oz, donald abbott, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, ellie smith, frank joslyn baum, fumaro, general riskitt, glinda, glinda of oz, greg hunter, guardian of the gates, handy mandy, how the wizard saved oz, jack pumpkinhead, jeff freedman, jellia jamb, joe weedles, kabina, kabumpo, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, margolotte, mombi, nine tiny piglets, nome king, notta bit more, number nine, omby amby, ozma, ozmapolitan, pastoria, patchwork girl, paul dana, pinny and gig, polychrome, prince philador, queen ann soforth, robin hess, salye soforth, scarecrow, septimius septentrion, shaggy man, tales of magic land, the enchanted gnome of oz, the giant horse of oz, the goat girls of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the magic dishpan of oz, the mysterious pool of oz, the other searches for the lost princess of oz, the ozampolitan of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), three adepts, tik-tok of oz, time-travelling in oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, twink and tom jones, uncle henry, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz | 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

A Dictionary of Ozian Marriage

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Nathan

There was a discussion on marriages in Oz at this year’s OzCon International, partially inspired by how The Tin Woodman of Oz includes two seemingly bad marriages. Mrs. Yoop is glad her brutal, uncouth husband, who used to kick her … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Economics, Families, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged abrog, abuse, aunt em, chopyft, down town, dr. pipt, flatheads, gayelette, glegg, grampa in oz, grand duke hoochafoo, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jo cone, kabumpo in oz, king cheeriobed, king dad, king evoldo, king fumbo, king gos, king randywell, king sizzeroo, king theodore iii, lazy quadling, lord googly-goo, margolotte, marriage, mogodore, mr. yoop, mrs. sew-and-sew, mrs. yoop, nimmie amee, nome king, ojo in oz, ozcon international, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, pastoria, peer haps, peg amy, pigs, planetty, pon, prince inga of pingaree, prince pompadore, prince tatters, princess gloria, princess pajonia, professor grunter swyne, queen adora, queen cor, queen fi nance, queen isomere, queen kabebe, queen orin, quelala, realbad, rinkitink in oz, rora flathead, speedy in oz, squealina swyne, stratovania, strut of the strat, supreme dictator, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, uncle henry, weddings, wumbo | 2 Comments

Perfectly Petrified

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Nathan

Writing about the legend that Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was turned into a marble statue and buried near the Golden Gate of Constantinople got me thinking of the mentions of such statues in the Oz books. For some reason, L. … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Comics, Eric Shanower, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bortag, button-bright, cinderbutton, clocker, corumbia, cowardly lion, crunch, crystal city, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, emerald city, emperor constantine xi palaiologos, enchanted sleep, glinda, handy mandy in oz, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jellia jamb, kiki aru, king arthur, king mustafa of mudge, liquid of petrifaction, magic belt, marble statues, margolotte, mombi, nome king, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, paul dana, petrifying powder, pirates in oz, planetty, pokes, poppies, powder of life, powder of petrifaction, princess marygolden, quiberon, red jinn, return to oz, singra, sir hokus of pokes, sleep, speedy, speedy in oz, standing-stick, statues, stupefying powder, the cowardly lion of oz, the enchanted apples of oz, the magic of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the royal book of oz, the silver princess in oz, the wicked witch of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tippetarius, unc nunkie, valynn, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the south, witches, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, yankee in oz | 4 Comments

Everything’s Coming Up Ojo

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Nathan

In The Patchwork Girl of Oz, L. Frank Baum introduces his fourth boy protagonist to the Oz series, Ojo the Unlucky. He’s not really a stereotypically boyish boy, but instead rather solemn and insecure, with a tendency to break out … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged bungle the glass cat, button-bright, dr. pipt, emerald city, jack pumpkinhead of oz, james thurber, kabumpo in oz, king ketone aldehyde, l. frank baum, margolotte, mooj, munchkins, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, queen isomere of seebania, realbad, ruth plumly thompson, seebania, shamsbad, the lost princess of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the red desert of oz, ugu the shoemaker, unc nunkie, wiljon | 25 Comments

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A Pound of Man’s Tin

Zooming with the Wizard

We Are Family

You’re in Luck

A Dictionary of Ozian Marriage

Perfectly Petrified

Everything’s Coming Up Ojo

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