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Heffalumps and Woozies

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 |

The Rest of Nonestica

The International Wizard of Oz Club’s map of the countries surrounding Oz includes a few places, mostly in the southeastern part of the continent (which most likely isn’t technically a continent), that were never directly linked with Oz. They are, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cults, Dick Martin, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, arol, aurissau, bilkon, burzee, earl of highlough, fairies, gregory maguire, groves of trom, gump, gurd, hallita, international wizard of oz club, jack frost, james e. haff, junkum, king gruph, king scowleyow, lady lindeva, macvelt, mary ann brodjinsky de la porkus, mary-marie, mother goose in prose, mount mern, mulgravia, old king cole, prince melra, quok, slave of the royal bedstead, the king who changed his mind, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the queen of quok, the runaway shadows, the witchcraft of mary-marie, the wizard of aurissau, thumbumbia, tik-tok of oz, whatland, witches, zendik |

Ask the Flowers to Tell You

Yesterday was L. Frank Baum’s birthday, and Tuesdays are my designated days for writing about Oz, although it doesn’t always work out that way. Since I had something more pressing to write about yesterday, I’m going to look at a … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Magic, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ray Powell, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, burzee, chloris, fairies, favonius, flora, floralia, flower fairies, flowers, grampa in oz, immortals, karpos, king of the ryls, knooks, nelebel's fairyland, nymphs, ozga, prince marvel, prince of the ryls, rose kingdom, ryls, santa claus, tanko-mankie, the dummy that lived, the enchanted island of yew, the enchanted types, the gardener's boy of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the raggedys in oz, the road to oz, the ryl, the ryl of the lilies, the vegetable man of oz, the yellow ryl, tik-tok of oz, urtha, zephyrus |

Button-Bright Illumination

The other day, I came across a link to this bit of Oz fanfiction about Polychrome finding Button-Bright in Philadelphia and taking him to Mo. It fills in some gaps in his story, since The Scarecrow of Oz has him … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, button-bright, christmas in oz, grandma natch, jack frost, jeremy steadman, magic umbrella, margaret berg, martin gardner, mary poppins, ojo, outsiders from oz, p.l. travers, paul dana, polychrome, red jinn, robin hess, snow queen, the emerald ring of oz, the glass dog, the lost boy of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the road to oz, the scarecrow of oz, the visitors from oz, twin properties, Vaughn Smythe |

Baum vs. the Bible

When we discussed John R. Neill’s Lucky Bucky in Oz on the old Nonestica mailing list, J.L. Bell mentioned how Bucky recalled the story of Jonah and the Whale when riding inside Davy Jones. Biblical allusions are uncommon in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Theosophy | Tagged american fairy tales, bible, cap'n bill, captain salt in oz, garden of eden, goliath, j. l. bell, jonah, king anko, king solomon, lucky bucky in oz, mother goose in prose, nebuchadnezzar, noah, noah's ark, paradise, policeman bluejay, queen zixi of ix, samson, satan, the emerald city of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the laughing hippopotamus, the magic of oz, the sea fairies, the uplift of lucifer, the witchcraft of mary-marie, the wond'rous wise man, twinkle and chubbins, twinkle tales, uncle henry, uplifters, zog |

Things We Did on Glass

I’ve been thinking of the uses of glass in the Oz books, particularly when applied in a magical way. The Mangaboos live in glass buildings that grew out of the ground and can grow back together again if they’ve been … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Gina Wickwar, Greek Mythology, Hugh Pendexter, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, bungle the glass cat, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dr. pipt, faraq geldamom, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, lostland, mangaboos, ozma, powder of life, prince cyan, princess vitrea of silica, professor wogglebug, red jinn, silica, silico, the crocheted cat in oz, the disenchanted princess of oz, the glass dog, the hidden prince of oz, the runaway in oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tippetarius in oz, vitriol of silica, vitrix of silica, vulcan, wizards, zeebo, zim greenleaf |

How to Succeed in Ozian Politics

When Benny, the living statue from Boston in Ruth Plumly Thompson’s The Giant Horse of Oz, arrives in Oz, he asks the Scarecrow if the country is a republic. The straw man replies, “Indeed not! We are a magic monarchy … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Politics, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, aurex, awgwas, benny, blue country, book of royalty, bookville, boolooroo of the blues, bunnybury, dorothy gale, giants, glinda, gloria, high coco-lorum, james haff, jenny jump, jinxland, king bal loon, king gugu, king timothy of noland, krewl, land o' patch, loonville, macvelt, nandywog, nickadoodle, noland, ozlection, ozma, patch, patchwork girl, pink country, polychrome, professor wogglebug, queen coo-ee-oh, scarecrow, septentria, skeezers, sky island, skyle of un, susan smiggs, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the queen of quok, the scarecrow of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, thi, tin woodman, tripedalia, trot griffiths, whimsies, wicked witch of the west, winkies, wizard of oz |

The Living Arts

One of the more bizarre recurring themes in the Oz books, albeit not one without precedent, is that of painted material becoming real when it’s lifelike enough. We first hear about this in Ozma of Oz, in which Tik-Tok reports … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged american fairy tales, art colony, button-bright, button-bright and the knit-wits of oz, edith nesbit, jack pumpkinhead, jim vander noot, jinjur, lucky bucky in oz, mombi, ozma of oz, scarecrow, smith and tinker, the girl who owned a bear, the ozmapolitan of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tik-tok, trickolas om, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer |

So Much for My Happy Ending

This comic got me thinking about stock openings and closings for fairy tales, particularly the latter. I’m terrible at coming up with endings. You may have noticed that a lot of my posts end pretty abruptly. Anyway, the “happily ever … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged american fairy tales, bible, brothers grimm, dinosaur comics, endings, gospel of john, hansel and gretel, jesus, the glass dog |