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It Payes to Have Personality

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Nathan

Hiya, kiddos! I’ve done some more rereading recently, so today I’ll be going over the Oz work of Rachel Cosgrove Payes, the fifth official Royal Historian of Oz. The Hidden Valley of Oz – The next-to-last in what I suppose … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ray Powell, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Toys | Tagged adventures in oz, betsy bobbin, bookville, collapsible kite, cowardly lion, dirk gringhuis, dorothy gale, equinots, flicker, flowers, giants, guardian of the muffin tree, guinea pigs, henry blossom, herbertha the herb lady, hidden valley, hungry tiger, icetown, international wizard of oz club, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jellia jamb, jessamine, jonathan andrew manley, kenneth gage baum, kites, kizzo, lake lavendra, leon the neon, leopard with the changing spots, leopards, nome king, oz-story magazine, oziana, ozma, percy and the shrinking violet, percy the personality kid, pinny and gig, rats, reilly & lee, rocket trip to oz, scarecrow, shrinking violets, singra, snowmen, spots in oz, terp the terrible, the blue emperor of oz, the dinamonster of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the ice king of oz, the raggedys in oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, violetta, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the south, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, yankee in oz | 2 Comments

Flittering Away

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Nathan

Scan by Jared Davis The 1990 Oziana is a professional issue, in that all the authors and illustrators actually do that for a living. Most of them had appeared in Oziana before this, and one of these stories was published … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dreams, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, alice liddell, alice's adventures in wonderland, amazing stories, birds, bucketheads in oz, bungle the glass cat, bzzzantium, cats, chapter three, dorothy gale, doves, fess, flittermouse, frogman, hungry tiger, in a season of calm weather, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, kalidahs, kericot the considerate kalidah, maybe the miffin, merry go round in oz, nine tiny piglets, nome king, oziana, Pablo Picasso, percy the personality kid, peter pan, professor wogglebug, rats, ray bradbury, robin brown, russet meagle, terrence oldshell, the fabulous frogman and the faith of freakish friends, the final fate of the frogman, the guardian dove, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the wicked witch of oz, the wonder city of oz, thorns and private files in oz, troth, truth pond, virginia woolf, wendy darling, woot the wanderer | 3 Comments

Birds of a Feather (and a Few Without)

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Nathan

I don’t think I’ve ever really written specifically about the birds in the Oz series, and there are quite a few of them. When Dorothy first arrives in Oz, she sees “birds with rare and brilliant plumage” in the Munchkin … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged balloon bird, balloon island, banana bird, barrel birds, birds, birds of paradise, bob up, bobolinks, captain salt, captain salt in oz, chapter three, chickens, cowardly lion, crows, dorothy and the wizard in oz, ducks, flittermouse, foolish owl, garden of eden, gluckbird, gooch, grand mo-gull, gulls, hummingbirds, hurrah birds, hurrah's nest, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jalapomp, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, lake orizon, lonesome duck, lucky bucky in oz, nickadoodle, notta bit more, orks, owls, oziana, patch, peli-cans, percy vere, peter brown, pirates in oz, policeman bluejay, reedbirds, rocs, roger the read bird, russet meagle, scissor bird, skyle of un, snif the iffin, stork scissors, storks, the cowardly lion of oz, the curious cruise of captain santa, the giant horse of oz, the little gingerbread man, the lost king of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, zazagooch | 1 Comment

The Fabulous Fashions of Oz

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Nathan

I’ve examined the typical styles of Ozian clothing before, but I think I can come up with a few more thoughts about them. To begin with, The Patchwork Girl of Oz has a more thorough description of the Munchkin costume … Continue reading →

Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged becky klein, boots, boq, clothes, david hulan, dorothy gale, fashion, glinda, glinda of oz, good witch of the north, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, merry go round in oz, mombi's pink polkadot vest, number nine, ozma, patchwork girl, pingaree, professor wogglebug, queen ann soforth, rinkitink in oz, scarecrow, shoes, silver shoes, singra, styles, the glass cat of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, witches | 2 Comments

The Best of Inventions

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Nathan

If you’ve read the Oz books, you might remember Smith and Tinker as the creators of Tik-Tok, as well as the Giant with the Hammer and, as per Rachel Cosgrove Payes, the Hundred-Year Alarm Clock. I’ve written about them before … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Hugh Pendexter, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged a side view of the nonestic islands, button-bright and the knit-wits of oz, dcim wainwright, ev, frank joslyn baum, frost 'n freeze, giant with the hammer, glinda and the red jinn, hundred-year alarm clock, inventors, james howe, jim vander noot, jubulut, julius quickscissors, martha cornog, mister tinker in oz, mr. smith, mr. tinker, oziana, ozma of oz, red jinn, robert pattrick, robots, rosine and the laughing dragon of oz, singra, smith and tinker, speckoscope, stumbling blocks, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the witch queen of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok, timothy perper, wishful fixing lotion, wooglet in oz | 4 Comments

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

Lovable and Not-So-Lovable Rogues

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Nathan

I’ve now read a few of the Best of the Baum Bugle volumes I just recently purchased, and there are some interesting articles in there, including some on the Nome King and L. Frank Baum’s other villains. I’ve already covered … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Focus on the Foes, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged abrog, baum's other villains, bell-snickle, boolooroo of the blues, bortag, bustabo, c. warren hollister, chalk, conjo, crunch, dorothy and the wizard in oz, faleero, giants, glegg, gludwig the glubrious, grampa in oz, grand gallipoot, growleywogs, guph, gwig, handy mandy in oz, judy pike, kabumpo in oz, kiki aru, king skamperoo, king strutoovious vii, king terribus of spor, loxo the lucky, lucky bucky in oz, merry go round in oz, mimics, mombi, mooj, mustafa of mudge, nome king, ozma and the little wizard, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, pirates in oz, prince marvel, queen ann soforth, quiberon, red rogue, roundelay, singra, sir greves, sky island, slyddwyn, speedy in oz, sultan of samandra, terp the terrible, the baum bugle, the best of the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the decline and fall of the nome king, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted apples of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the giant horse of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the sea fairies, the shaggy man of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, ugu the shoemaker, water of oblivion, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, zog | Leave a comment

Insect Aside

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Nathan

L. Frank Baum is never entirely clear on whether ALL animals in Oz can talk, or whether animals eat each other there. For instance, are insects there sentient? Well, the Wogglebug is, but that’s after he’s been Highly Magnified and … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged anteaters, ants, bears, bees, billina, bucketheads in oz, cap'n bill, gili bar-hillel, grampa in oz, grasshoppers, insects, jack breton, jitterbug, larry breton, lucky bucky in oz, mosquitoes, ojo in oz, ozma of oz, peter schulenburg, professor wogglebug, snufferbux, sullivanthauros, the disenchanted princess of oz, the emerald city of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ork in oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin castle of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the woggle-bug book, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's tale, thunderbugs, tin woodman, wasps, wicked witch of the west, woozy, yankee in oz | 4 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 But the Kitchen Sink in Oz

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Nathan

It often seems to be the case that people who read Oz books by authors other than L. Frank Baum when they were young accept them as official, while those who read them later are a little more wary of … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged continuity, famous forty, fanfiction, james thurber, joe bongiorno, maud gage baum, mrs. yoop, nome king, oz vs authors, patrick maund, robert pattrick, royal timeline of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway in oz, the rundelstone of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, unexplored territory in oz | 16 Comments

Tag Archives: the wicked witch of oz

It Payes to Have Personality

Flittering Away

Birds of a Feather (and a Few Without)

The Fabulous Fashions of Oz

The Best of Inventions

Automa-Tons of Fun

Lovable and Not-So-Lovable Rogues

Insect Aside

Perfectly Petrified

Everything But the Kitchen Sink in Oz

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