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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

Magical Art Imitates Life

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Nathan

Recently, fellow Oz fan Kevenn Smith raised an interesting question on Facebook about how the magically animated beings in the series function the way they do. “For instance, the Sawhorse doesn’t really sound like he has knees. How does he … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged blue bear rug, bungle the glass cat, davy jones the wooden whale, gargoyles, gump, jack pumpkinhead, kevenn smith, nome king, patchwork girl, popla, powder of life, sawhorse, scarecrow, the gnome king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the road to oz, the runaway in oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, victor columbia edison | Leave a comment

Patchwork Relationships

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Nathan

Jared Davis recently wrote about relationships and sexuality in Oz, a topic that I’d addressed before. Jared and J.L. Bell have also commented on how a passage in The Tin Woodman of Oz has taken on a different but perhaps … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Families, Gender, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bunbury, bungle the glass cat, crystal city, dr. pipt, gilbert sprague, hi-lo, homosexuality, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead, ku-klip, marriage, mombi, monogamy, nimmie amee, ojo in oz, ozma, patchwork girl, popla, princess ozana, sawhorse, scarecrow, sexuality, the emerald city of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the patchwork bride of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the runaway in oz, the scalawgaons of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tin woodman, tippetarius, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer | Leave a comment

Poets Who Know It

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Nathan

One of the characters introduced in the 1902 stage play of The Wizard of Oz who wasn’t in the book was Sir Dashemoff Daily, the Poet Laureate of Oz. I’m not sure if it was L. Frank Baum or someone … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Poetry, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bookville, cap'n bill, donald abbott, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, emerald city, eureka the pink kitten, flittermouse, general riskitt, halidom, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, merry go round in oz, ojo, ozma, pastoria, patchwork girl, percy vere, pigasus, popla, professor wogglebug, rhyming dictionary, sir dashemoff daily, sir wiley gyle, sky island, snif the iffin, the hidden valley of oz, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the runaway in oz, the wizard of oz (stage play), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, twinkler | 3 Comments

Drifting Off to Dreamland

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Nathan

If you look at the map of the countries surrounding Oz from the endpapers of Tik-Tok of Oz, you’ll notice that the area just to the east (which is left on this map for some reason) of the Growleywogs’ territory … Continue reading →

Posted in Dreams, Oz, Places | Tagged alexample, castle in the air, charmed gardens of oz, dori, everett avila, growleywogs, john r. neill, kabumpo in oz, kingdom of dreams, l. frank baum, maps, march laumer, michael patrick hearn, oziana, ozma of oz, patchwork girl, phanfasms, popla, professor wogglebug, ruth plumly thompson, sandman, sherwood smith, the annotated wizard of oz, the runaway in oz, the tail of the pink goat, tik-tok of oz, trouble under oz, twinkler, whimsies | 6 Comments

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