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Down on the Farm

Here are a few Oz things I’ve read recently. Dark Wind in Oz, by Tarl Telford – It’s been some time since I read the first two books in the Hidden History of Oz series, but now I’ve finally read … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Dreams, Eric Shanower, Games, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a study in orange, abby, ages of oz, angela garvey garvey, aunt em, billina, bitty bit, conjo, corwin davison poe, dark wind in oz, dorothy gale, fairies, foiled by the iffin, frogman, gabriel gale, gilbert and sullivan, glinda, glinda's letters to oz, grampa in oz, guardian of the gates, gump, imogene the cow, journal of a journey, king skamperoo, mary rakestraw, mombi, omby amby, oziah prendergast gillikin iiii, oziana, ozma, pastoria, pigasus, role-playing, smith and tinker, sundays at sam's, tarl telford, the computer wizard of oz, the final fate of the frogman, the giant garden of oz, the glinda letters, the hidden history of oz, the hollyhock dolls in oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, timeline, toto, truth pond, uncle henry, water of oblivion, wicked witch of the east, witches, wizard of oz, yips, zim greenleaf of oz |

Shanower Shorts

I don’t think I’ve ever done a proper review of The Salt Sorcerer of Oz and Other Stories, by Eric Shanower, and I’m not sure I’m entirely doing so here either. I’ve recently written about two of the tales, “The … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Eric Shanower, Families, Humor, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aa the salt sorcerer, abby, bladgaar, bungle the glass cat, cap'n bill, clank, conjo, dorothy gale, emerald city, fardels, flicker, forest of gugu, glenn ingersoll, gugu and the kalidahs, hungry tiger, kabumpo, kalidahs, king gugu, lake quad, ma-dul-ma-dun, merfolk, multiplying overcoat, mushrooms, oziana, ozmapolitan, parts unavailable, patchwork girl, quaddle, queen piopelp, scarecrow, shroom city, shrooms, speedy in oz, the balloon-girl of oz, the final fate of the frogman, the flying girl, the ice king of oz, the purple prince of oz, the salt sorcerer of oz, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the shaggy man of oz, the silver jug, tik-tok, trot griffiths, trot of oz, twiffle, twink and tom jones, waddy, woozy, world war ii, zyzzwyzz |

Gee-Whiz, More Oz!

I am now the proud owner of the 2014 Oziana, the fiction magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club. This issue contains six stories about Oz, starting with David Tai and Jared Davis‘ “Lost and Never Found,” in which … Continue reading →

Posted in Edward Einhorn, Eric Shanower, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged aaron solomon adelman, abby, alexander volkov, david tai, dot and tot of merryland, dr. pipt, emerson hough, gilbert sprague, hank the mule, international wizard of oz club, j. l. bell, jinjur, joe bongiorno, kabumpo, kim mcfarland, labor of love, lost and never found, magic land, merryland, oziana, patchwork girl, rob zombie in oz, roselawn, scarecrow, tempus the parrot-ox, the king of gee-whiz, the new fellow, the patchwork bride of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, urfin jus, wilbur d. nesbit |

No One in Oz Looks His Age

Determining anyone’s age in Oz can be a difficult matter, as people don’t age unless they want to. (Actually, that was Ruth Plumly Thompson’s idea; L. Frank Baum stated in The Tin Woodman of Oz that even babies don’t age … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged abby, aging, betsy bobbin, button-bright, cap'n bill, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, joe bongiorno, kabumpo in oz, king randywell, lucky bucky in oz, lucky bucky jones, michael patrick hearn, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, ozma of oz, peter brown, pirates in oz, prince pompadore, royal timeline of oz, sky island, speedy, the annotated wizard of oz, the giant horse of oz, the lost princess of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, trot griffiths, twink and tom jones |

Twinking with Tom

The outcry regarding Andrew Garfield’s comment that he’d be interested in seeing Spider-Man with a boyfriend made me think of some comments I saw back on the old Ozzy Digest, which I think actually predated my joining the mailing list. … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged abby, andrew garfield, conjo, frank kramer, heteronormativity, homosexuality, ozma, ozzy digest, shaggy man, spider-man, the shaggy man of oz, twiffle, twink and tom jones, twoffle |

The Kids from America

Since I recently wrote about possible locations for Superman’s hometown, I might as well do the same for the Americans who ended up in Oz, either to live or just to visit. As might be expected, it’s a combination of … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Rachel Cosgrove Payes | Tagged abby, aunt em, betsy bobbin, betsy bobbin of oz, button-bright, cap'n bill, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dorothy maryott, greg hunter, jenny jump, lucky bucky jones, shaggy man, speedy, the enchanted island of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, trot, twink and tom jones, uncle henry, wizard of oz |

The Age of Ozlectricity

When I was working on an Oz story back in high school (which, by the way, I never finished, although I incorporated some of the ideas from it into my rough draft for The Royal Crab of Oz), and I … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes | Tagged abby, david hulan, dorothy gale, electricity, jack pumpkinhead, leon the neon, magic picture, ozma, percy the personality kid, plumbing, singra, the disenchanted princess of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wicked witch of oz, zim greenleaf |