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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

Button-Bright Illumination

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Nathan

The other day, I came across a link to this bit of Oz fanfiction about Polychrome finding Button-Bright in Philadelphia and taking him to Mo. It fills in some gaps in his story, since The Scarecrow of Oz has him … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, button-bright, christmas in oz, grandma natch, jack frost, jeremy steadman, magic umbrella, margaret berg, martin gardner, mary poppins, ojo, outsiders from oz, p.l. travers, paul dana, polychrome, red jinn, robin hess, snow queen, the emerald ring of oz, the glass dog, the lost boy of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the road to oz, the scarecrow of oz, the visitors from oz, twin properties, Vaughn Smythe | 5 Comments

Things We Did on Glass

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Nathan

I’ve been thinking of the uses of glass in the Oz books, particularly when applied in a magical way. The Mangaboos live in glass buildings that grew out of the ground and can grow back together again if they’ve been … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Gina Wickwar, Greek Mythology, Hugh Pendexter, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, bungle the glass cat, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dr. pipt, faraq geldamom, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, lostland, mangaboos, ozma, powder of life, prince cyan, princess vitrea of silica, professor wogglebug, red jinn, silica, silico, the crocheted cat in oz, the disenchanted princess of oz, the glass dog, the hidden prince of oz, the runaway in oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tippetarius in oz, vitriol of silica, vitrix of silica, vulcan, wizards, zeebo, zim greenleaf | 5 Comments

So Much for My Happy Ending

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Nathan

This comic got me thinking about stock openings and closings for fairy tales, particularly the latter. I’m terrible at coming up with endings. You may have noticed that a lot of my posts end pretty abruptly. Anyway, the “happily ever … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged american fairy tales, bible, brothers grimm, dinosaur comics, endings, gospel of john, hansel and gretel, jesus, the glass dog | Leave a comment

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