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Posted on April 2, 2023 by Nathan

Elektra, by Jennifer Saint – This is the author’s second book based on Greek mythology, after Ariadne. I liked that one better, but maybe that’s my preference for the more fantastic myths. Not that Elektra’s story isn’t insane as all get-out, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Aztec, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Humor, incryptid, Magic, Mayan, Mythology, Names, Native American, Plays, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Technology | Tagged agamemnon, ah-puch, aladdin, antimony price, arabian nights, ariadne, arthur harrington, cassandra, chalchiuhtlicue, clytemnestra, demons, elektra, follow the lady, genie, imaginary numbers, instar, j.c. cervantes, jaguar warriors, jennifer saint, jinn, johrlac, meru, mount meru, noel langley, omar khayyam, pantomime, rick riordan presents, s.b. divya, sarah zellaby, shadow bruja, tezcatlipoca, the land of green ginger, the lords of night, the wizard of oz (1939), trojan war, widow twankey | Leave a comment

Teeny Tiny Bat

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Nathan

Halloween has come and gone, and the Great Pumpkin never showed up. Does no one care about sincerity in pumpkin patches anymore? It’s all this commercial farming, I’m sure. Anyway, here are my thoughts on one thing I watched for … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dreams, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Revisiting Disney, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged art the clown, aunt em, billina, clowns, count dracula, disco, dorothy gale, emerald city, frankenstein, gump, horror, jack pumpkinhead, mombi, mummies, murder, nome king, ozma of oz, princess langwidere, return to oz, terrifier, the halloween that almost wasn't, the marvelous land of oz, the neverending story, the night dracula saved the world, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, time bandits, transylvania, uncle henry, wheelers, witches, wolfman, yellow brick road, zombies | 8 Comments

Crafts and Cons

Posted on October 5, 2022 by Nathan

As I said last week, I’ve already written about the 2003 Oziana across two posts back when it was new, and I still agree with what I wrote. I didn’t go into much detail, though, so I’ll examine it a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Board Games, Characters, Dick Martin, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bert lahr, cats, crafton, crescent moon, daniel gobble, derek designer, dorothy gale, dr. byz zaar in oz, dr. pipt, emerald city, eureka the pink kitten, gabriel gale, gregory maguire, jenny jump, jimm phillips, judy lahr, king randywell, lee theriot, luciano vecchio, margaret hamilton, maria baker, michael patrick hearn, nonestica, omby amby, owls, oz quest, oziana, ozma, powder of life, ray bolger, scalawagons, scott meserve, shaggy man, stephen schwartz, the annotated wizard of oz, the bashful baker of oz, the purple prince of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), tik-tok, tik-tok's transformation, victoria calamito, voyage of the crescent moon, wicked, yip harburg | 15 Comments

Something for the Ruler with Everything

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Nathan

The 1998 Oziana has even less original art than the last issue. Aside from the front cover by Ron Zhang, showing an MGM-inspired Wicked Witch of the West menacing the familiar four (five, including Toto) and a picture of Ozma … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Comics, Dennis Anfuso, Games, Greek Mythology, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a princess of oz, barsoom, betsy bobbin, bungle the glass cat, bunnybury, corabia, corumbia, cowardly lion, dave hardenbrook, david hulan, dorothy gale, edgar rice burroughs, elephants, firestones, gayelette, glinda, golden cap, j. l. bell, jellia jamb maid of oz, john carter, kabumpo, kabumpo finds a frond, lonesome duck, magic belt, mars, mike turniansky, oziana, ozma, ozma's swap party, ozzy digest, patchwork girl, prince corum of corumbia, princess marygolden of corabia, puzzles, quelala, rabbits, robin olderman, ron zhang, samandra, scarecrow, sir hokus of pokes, the astonishing tale of the gump of oz, the emerald city of oz, the gauds of oz, the giant horse of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the shortest book of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, trot griffiths, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, woodchucks | 2 Comments

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

Get Reel

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Nathan

Since the 1989 Oziana is more movie-based, it shouldn’t be too surprising that it’s not a favorite of mine, but I have some things to say about it anyway. “Biozonnet 1,” by Robin Olderman – The editor presents a poem … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Dreams, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry | Tagged biozonnet 1, chris sterling, chuck sabatos, dorothy gale, follow the other brick road, forest of gugu, fred meyer, gayelette, glinda, good witch of the north, john fricke, oziana, quizzes, rated g for glinda, rhinoceroses, rob roy macveigh, robert b. luehrs, robin olderman, roger phillips, susan hall, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, there's no place like oz, toto, wam, yellow brick road | 2 Comments

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 | 3 Comments

Nonestic Promotion

Posted on January 20, 2022 by Nathan

One thing I think about occasionally is the promotion that the Oz books received in their heyday. L. Frank Baum had been a salesman and a contributor to a magazine about decorating shop windows, so it’s not too surprising that he … Continue reading →

Posted in Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged amusement parks, dorothy and the wizard in oz, fairylogue and radio-plays, john dough, john dough and the cherub, land of oz park, madame tussaud, martin gardner, mifkets, otis turner, oz convention, ozma, pedloe island, professor wogglebug, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, romola remus, selig polygraph company, the baum bugle, the oz-toy book, the patchwork girl of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wogglebug game of conundrums, the wonderful game of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, w.w. denslow, woozy, yankee in oz | Leave a comment

Fact Within Fiction

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Nathan

It’s a strange thing to me that a world presented in a work of fiction can be basically just like ours, except without that work, and often related ones, existing in it, even if it’s very popular in the real … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Comics, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, becky klein, bob up, button-bright, david hulan, david perry, dorothy gale, emerald city, glinda, jenny jump, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, lucky bucky in oz, lucky bucky jones, marvel comics, nome king, notta bit more, ojo in oz, ozma, ozmapolitan, patchwork girl, peter brown, polychrome, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, red jinn, shaggy man, sky island, spider-man, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the glass cat of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the tik-tok man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonder city of oz, tik-tok of oz, tippetarius in oz, tompy terry, trot griffiths, twink and tom jones, walt mcdougall, wizard of oz, yankee, yankee in oz | 6 Comments

Shave and a Haircut, Two Squits

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Nathan

Jenny Jump might well be the foremost stylist in Oz, but there are other mentions of hairstyling being a thing in Oz even before her arrival, if perhaps less creative. There’s a pun in The Patchwork Girl of Oz when Bungle … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Edward Einhorn, Etymology, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alibabble, barbers, barberville, bertrand russell, brussle, bungle the glass cat, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, down town, emerald city, eric gjovaag, hair, hairstyles, hungry tiger, jo musket, jodie in oz, karyl carlson, lady twist, old wolliwag, ozcon international, ozma of oz, paradox in oz, princess ayala, princess talia, queen ann in oz, rash, red jinn, sir dye, the hungry tiger of oz, the living house of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tonsoria, unc nunkie, w. w. denslow, who's who in oz, wigs, young wolliwag | Leave a comment

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