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Centennial Central

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Nathan

The 2000 Oziana has some fun stories, but a dearth of illustrations, pretty much just using repurposed John R. Neill art. The cover is an exception, but it’s just the standard logo that the International Wizard of Oz Club used … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Fred Otto, Health, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged button-bright, cats, dogs, emerald city, fairies, faleero, flying cloak of invisibility, forest of burzee, good witch of the north, haiku, international wizard of oz club, jenny jump, king pompus, matiah, oziana, ozma, ozma fights the sniffles, pastoria, percy vere, pigasus, pigs, princess pajonia, pumperdink, robin olderman, the banishment of faleero, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the invisible fairy of oz, the lost king of oz, the marvelous menagerie, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, toto, two-two, wizard of oz | 3 Comments

The Need for Speedy

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Nathan

The 1996 Oziana is unusual in that it contains only one story, Umbrella Island in Oz, by Ruth Waara. As such, it’s kind of weird that the cover picture has nothing to do with it, instead being a Dick Martin … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Dick Martin, John R. Neill, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Television | Tagged agree filtre, chameleons, cinderbutton the witch, dinosaurs, dorothy gale, international wizard of oz club, ivan montebank, joe bongiorno, ken cope, king sizzeroo, magic belt, oziana, pigasus, pirates in oz, princess gureeda, robin olderman, royal timeline of oz, ruth waara, speedy, speedy in oz, terrybubble, the magic cryptogram of oz, the wishing horse of oz, umbrella island, umbrella island in oz, waddy, witches, wizards | Leave a comment

Lions Are a Beast’s Best King

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Nathan

I might as well move on with my Oziana reread to the 1982 issue, which has a rather more abstract and stylized cover than earlier ones. It has a picture of the Cowardly Lion and a mountain inside a larger … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a day in oz, ben p. indick, billina, blorgens, cowardly lion, david ingersoll, dorothy gale, edith ellen reuwer, fairies, glenn ingersoll, herby the medicine man, jay delkin, jenny jump, kim mcfarland, labor of love, magic fan, nelebel, nelebel's fairyland, omby amby, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, professor wogglebug, rob roy macveigh, scarecrow, the change made by the magic turnstyle, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the scarecrow's appreciation day, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, turn-style, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

They’re Gonna Put Me in the Movies

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Nathan

The 1979 Oziana starts out by saying three stories “seems to be a typical number,” which is generally true, although the previous one had four. The cover illustration by Rob Roy MacVeigh shows the Scarecrow in a cornfield, with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aunt em, cowardly lion, dorothy and the wizard in oz, emerald city, geoffrey l. gould, glinda, gloma, greg gick, hank and the scarecrow of oz, hank the mule, horses, hungry tiger, jack pumpkinhead, jim the cab-horse, journal of a journey, mary rakestraw, oziana, rob roy macveigh, robert pattrick, ruth berman, scarecrow, school of hard knocks, shaggy man, stephanie hawks, the deadly desert around oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the real critics, the wishing horse of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), toto, uncle henry, wicked witch of the east, witches, wizard of oz, zeb hugson | 2 Comments

Unequal Reprozentation

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Nathan

Picture by Jimmy Robinson I had observed before how L. Frank Baum didn’t do a whole lot with the Gillikin Country after introducing it The Marvelous Land of Oz, then had a lot happen there in his last three Oz … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged captain salt in oz, emerald city, ev, gillikins, glinda, glinda of oz, grampa in oz, jinjur, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, merry go round in oz, munchkins, nome kingdom, nonestic ocean, ozana, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, professor wogglebug, quadlings, ragbad, speedy in oz, statistics, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the marvelous land of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tin castle, winkies | Leave a comment

Magic to the People

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Nathan

Lost in Oz – They showed the first episode of this program at the latest OzCon, and I’ve since watched all the available episodes. There are sort of two seasons, in that there are two sets of thirteen each, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Television | Tagged agent wally pugmill, bureau of magic, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, fitz, glinda, guph, kaliko, lost in oz, mombi, nome king, nomes, ojo, ozcon international, ozma, patchwork, pearls of pingaree, princess langwidere, reigh, return to oz, scarecrow, the wishing horse of oz, tin woodman, toto, west, wicked witch of the west, witches | 1 Comment

Companimals

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Nathan

Animal companions are a recurring theme in the Oz books, starting with Dorothy’s dog Toto. Kids reading the books were likely used to pets, so it makes sense. Since animals talk in Oz, however, some animal characters are more equal … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bears, betsy bobbin, billina, bunnybury, camels, cats, catty corners, chalk, civilization, comfortable camel, cowardly lion, david perry, dogs, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, emerald city, eureka, frogman, glinda, griffins, grumpy, handy mandy in oz, hank the mule, high boy, horses, humpty bumpty, imogene the cow, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jim the cab-horse, jonathan andrew manley, kabumpo, keretaria, king skamperoo, nickadoodle, nine tiny piglets, notta bit more, nox the ox, ozma, ozma of oz, patch, patchwork girl, percy the personality kid, peter brown, pets, pigasus, pigs, pinny and gig, pirates in oz, professor wogglebug, pumperdink, rabbits, seebania, sir hokus of pokes, snif the iffin, snufferbux, speedy, speedy in oz, terrybubble, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the lost king of oz, the royal book of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tompy terry, toto, yankee, yankee in oz, zeb hugson | Leave a comment

I Like Birds

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Nathan

When I linked to my last Oz post on Facebook, people gave a few more examples of birds I hadn’t mentioned, including some people turned into birds and other birds from authors outside the Famous Forty. I believe the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, David Tai, Edward Einhorn, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, Hugh Pendexter, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, beak the parrot, becky klein, benny the gander, birds, borderbirds, bordermoor, bush-birds, canaries, chickens, corina, crows, cuckoo clocks, cuckoos, cyrune, david hulan, diplomatic immunity, dorothy gale, doves, ducks, eagles, falcons, faleero, ganders, geese, glinda of oz, golden witch, goldfinches, good witch of the north, grampa, grampa in oz, great grey gillikin swamp, hawks, imps, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kiki aru, little wizard stories of oz, magic belt, magpies, mimics, mogodore, mombi, mooj, nome king, ojo in oz, ostriches, owls, ozma, ozma and the little wizard, pajuka, paradox in oz, parrot island, parrots, patchwork girl, phanfasms, pirates, pirates in oz, pocotristi sostenuto, polychrome, prince bobo, queen coo-ee-oh, queen klurookuk, ravens, rinkitink in oz, seagulls, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, sky island, slyddwyn, snip, sparrows, swans, tempus the parrot-ox, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat in oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the glass cat of oz, the hidden prince of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tommy kwikstep and the magpie, transformation, trot griffiths, ugu the shoemaker, vultures, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer, yeksh | 2 Comments

$ave! $ave! $ave!

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Nathan

Maybe it’s because of role-playing video games where you have to buy a bunch of stuff for your quest, but I tend to associate fantasy lands with wandering merchants. That sounds so much classier than traveling salesmen, even though I … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Characters, Dick Martin, Economics, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, William Shakespeare | Tagged bitty bit, braided man, button-bright of oz, carter green, charming cheetah, chauncey chance, chuck sabatos, doorways, harry mongold, jandar, jandy, kimbaloo, levimeyerabloch, lin carter, matiah, merchants, merry go round in oz, miss annabelinda, money, nimmie amee, oziana, packer, peddlers, roundabout, shylock, skampavia, the cowardly lion of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic mirror of oz, the merchant of oz, the merchant of venice, the merry mountaineer of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the tired tailor of oz, the wishing horse of oz, till orangespiegel, tin woodman, uncle henry and aunt em of oz, wam | 2 Comments

Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Nathan

The program books at the Winkie Convention/OzCon International, edited by David Maxine, have some pretty good essays and other material. My first contribution appeared in this year’s, which also included Robert Pattrick’s story about the Tin Woodman and Tin Soldier … Continue reading →

Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bill bored, branding in oz, bunbury, bunnybury, captain salt, captain salt in oz, crinklink, deadly desert, doorways, down town, ev, gludwig the glubrious, grampa in oz, handy mandy, handy mandy in oz, illumi nation, kabumpo in oz, little dorothy and toto, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, merry go round in oz, mr. yoop, nome kingdom, ozcon international, ozma, ozma of oz, patrick maund, pirates in oz, pokes, post man, roads, seeweegia, sign-here, signs, soup sea, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the forgotten forest of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, tik-tok of oz, wheelers | 1 Comment

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