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Serious About Series

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Nathan

I’ve finished reading the latest issue of The Baum Bugle, which is largely dedicated to Kabumpo in Oz. Editor Sarah Crozter co-wrote a piece with Nick Campbell on the book and Oz as a series in general. I’ve seen a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Characters, Christmas, Cults, Discworld, Dr. Seuss, Families, Games, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett, Toys | Tagged allison mcbain, black gold saya, cora-lee marcus, cory in oz, curious cottabus, dinosaurs, edward eager, fabia, fumaro, garrett kilgore, glinda, halloween island, i am jinjur, international wizard of oz club, jinjur, jonathan markoff, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kalidahs, kaliko, kuma party, limbo, lin carter, mary austin, nick campbell, nome king, nomes, on beyond zebra, ozma, ozma of oz, ozwold, pigasus, radiation, sarah crozter, teddy bears, the baum bugle, the gnome king of oz, the green glass castle, the man who didn't believe in christmas, the tired tailor of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, transformation, wizard of oz, writing, wumbo | 4 Comments

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

All Yooped Up

Posted on September 28, 2022 by Nathan

The 2002 Oziana brings back some of the same authors as the last issue, but with less original art. Melissa Bay Mathis supplied the cover art, a picture of the Patchwork Girl riding Pigasus, which is relevant to one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Art, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Edward Einhorn, Food, Fred Otto, Games, Gina Wickwar, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged an oz cliffhanger, armadillos, button-bright, cap'n bill, cat and mouse in oz, cats, catty corners, cowardly lion, crows, dorothy gale, dot and tot of merryland, emerald city, giants, glinda, hawks, hungry tiger, j. l. bell, joe bongiorno, lin carter, magic picture, margaret koontz, margie deemer, melissa bay mathis, mermaids, merryland, mice, milk, mr. yoop, mrs. yoop, opodock, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, ozma sees herself, patchwork girl, pearls of pingaree, pigasus, pingaree, pirates in oz, professor wogglebug, rabbits, sawhorse, scarecrow, sky island, the lost emeralds of oz, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the merry mountaineer of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the other searches for the lost princess of oz, the road to oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tippetarius in oz, tititi-hoochoo, truth pond, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, woot meets yoop, woot the wanderer, zim greenleaf | Leave a comment

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

Look Who’s Talking Now

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Nathan

The 1999 Oziana has a cover sporting four pictures of Toto, challenging the reader to determine which one was from what book and what artist. The first two are actually both by John R. Neill for The Lost Princess of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged canis heroicus, cowardly lion, dogs, dorothy gale, emerald city, fairies, frank kramer, how oz became a fairyland, ian fink, lurline, mombi, morrow, oziana, ozma, ozroar, pastoria, reincarnation, robin olderman, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, toto, toto and the truth, toto's tale, w.w. denslow, wizard of oz | 4 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

Eleven, Twelve, Pig and Delve

Posted on August 10, 2022 by Nathan

The first noticeable thing about the 1995 Oziana is that the cover has a picture by the late Rob Roy MacVeigh of the main characters from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. There’s also inside cover art by editor Robin Olderman, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Dreams, Eric Shanower, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a princess of oz, betsy bobbin, cats, david hulan, david maxine, delves, destre xan childs, dolls, emerald city, eureka the pink kitten, glinda, jack pumpkinhead, james vincent iii, k. kline, kaliko in oz, karyl carlson, magic belt, nine tiny piglets, nome king, nome kingdom, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, pigs, queen delva, rob roy macveigh, robin olderman, scarecrow, the dollmaker of oz, the purple prince of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's tale, tin woodman, trot griffiths, wag the rabbit, wizard of oz, yellow brick road | 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

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

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