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Right City, Wrong World

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Nathan

One interesting aspect to Philip Jose Farmer’s A Barnstormer in Oz is his indication that the human inhabitants of Oz are descended from people who arrived there from our world, mostly Goths but also Celts and Native Americans. This sort … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Donkey Kong, L. Frank Baum, Language, Mario, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged a barnstormer in oz, brooklyn, corumbia, diana ross, dinohattan, gypsies, kiltoon, mario kart tour, mifkets, mount mern, mushroom kingdom, narnia, nes open tournament golf, new donk city, new york city, philip jose farmer, silver island, sir hokus of pokes, super mario odyssey, telmar, the koopas are coming! the koopas are coming!, the wiz, the wonderful wizard of oz, toto of oz, uptown, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

When the Volcano Blow

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Nathan

I wrote last week about Dorothy’s tornado and other natural disasters that opened the way to Oz or the surrounding fairylands, and this time I’m going to look at ones within fairyland itself. We don’t really hear of many bad … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged betsy bobbin, betsy bobbin of oz, blazes, captain salt in oz, cork mountain, davy jones, ev, geysers, grampa in oz, greg hunter, land of mo, lucky bucky in oz, maybe the miffin, natural disasters, nonestic ocean, ripple lands, rolling country, soap hollow, storms, subterranea, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the salt sorcerer of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tornadoes, torpedo town, trade winds, uptown, volcanoes, weather, whirligig winds, winds, wizard of oz | 2 Comments

Gillikin Geography

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Nathan

I’ve already written about the other three (four, if you count the Emerald City territory) segments of Oz, and even though I haven’t gotten much if any response to them, I’ve had fun writing them. So here’s the last of … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged abra kadabra of oz, adventures in oz, bordermoor, forest of gugu, general quakes, gillikins, glinda of oz, gugu and the kalidahs, handy mandy in oz, hugh pendexter, james e. haff, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kalidahs, kimbaloo, king gugu, oziana, pumperdink, regalia, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the giant horse of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the purple prince of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, toto of oz, uptown | 5 Comments

Up with Gillikins

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Nathan

In my apparently ongoing quest to connect Alphonse Mucha’s artwork with Oz, he had a picture called “Princess Hyacinth,” and there’s a Queen Hyacinth in The Giant Horse of Oz. Okay, I don’t know that they’re that similar in appearance, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, John R. Neill, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alphonse mucha, gillikins, joe king, queen hyacinth, the giant horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, uptown | 3 Comments

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