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The Unreal World

I’d seen this map, created by Dan Meth, a few times before. It just showed up on Tumblr, and I love all the commentary it’s generated. I appreciate that Meth included places from television, movies, and video games (well, one … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, British, C.S. Lewis, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Castlevania, Chronicles of Narnia, Dick Martin, Discworld, Dr. Seuss, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jonathan Swift, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Mega Man, Metroid, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Once Upon a Time, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Punch-Out, Television, Terry Pratchett, Ursula K. LeGuin, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, avalon, bill willingham, blefuscu, bridge to terabithia, camelot, crossovers, dan meth, dinosaurs, dinotopia, dreamlands, earthsea, emerald city, fables, fritz leiber, game of thrones, george macdonald, gulliver's travels, h.p. lovecraft, heaven, hesperides, horton hatches the egg, horton hears a who, hyrule, jaro hess, jonathan swift, jungle of nool, king arthur, king hippo, king midas, kingdom of dreams, krull, land of the lost, lankhmar, lilliput, michael ende, middle-earth, narnia, nehwon, neverland, once-ler, peter and wendy, peter pan, phantastes, rip van winkle, sir lancelot du lac, sodor, spirit tracks, the dark crystal, the fantasy world map, the land of make-believe, the last battle, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, the lorax, the neverending story, the pied piper of hamelin, the princess bride, the wonderful world of oz, thomas and friends, thra, timelines, tol eressea, tom thumb, videoland, washington irving, westeros, where the wild things are, whoville, wonderland |

Sorta Fairytales

Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, by Catherine Orenstein – An in-depth analysis of a fairly simple fairy tale, focusing largely on how it changed over time. Some analysts have placed a … Continue reading →

Posted in A. Lee Martinez, Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Fairy Tales, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Uncategorized | Tagged big bad wolf, bill willingham, brothers grimm, catherine orenstein, charles perrault, cryptozoology, dragons, fables, farewell, kenneth grahame, little red riding hood, little red riding hood uncloaked, mark buckingham, monster, rose red, snow white, st. george, the reluctant dragon |

Go Monkey Go

I’ve been reading the Fables comic series on and off for a few years now, and I’ve now finished all but the final volume. There’s one ongoing plotline that specifically involves the Land of Oz, and it doesn’t look like … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bill willingham, bufkin, bungle the glass cat, fables, jack pumpkinhead, kaliko, mr. yoop, nome king, ozma, sawhorse, the emerald city of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, tik-tok of oz, winged monkeys |

Leave the Real World Far Behind

If you’ve watched the DiC Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoons, you’ll know that the inhabitants of the Mushroom World are always referring to the Earth we know as “the real world.” Wouldn’t their own world be more real to them? … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Harry Potter, L. Frank Baum, Mario, Oz, Oz Authors, Piers Anthony, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Xanth | Tagged bill willingham, fables, fairies, fairyland, king ato, pirates in oz, princess gureeda, real world, robert heinlein, speedy in oz, the adventures of super mario bros. 3, ugu the shoemaker, waddy |

Staging a Coup

Despite the phenomenal success of the 1939 MGM film version of The Wizard of Oz, adaptations of the other Oz books have never been particularly successful. I’m sure this is partially BECAUSE of the MGM movie’s success, as well as … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Comics, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bill willingham, children's theatre company, fables, inherit the wind, mgm, nome king, sawhorse, scarecrow, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wizard of oz, the woggle-bug, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman |

Cole Mining

While we know that Old King Cole was a merry old soul with a love for music, whether he actually existed is a matter of some debate. There are records of a few different British rulers named Coel, dating back … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, Comics, England, History, L. Frank Baum, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Robert Rankin, United Kingdom | Tagged bill willingham, coel hen, constantine, fables, geoffrey of monmouth, king arthur, merlin, mother goose in prose, old king cole, the hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse, the toyminator |

Fable, Fable, Set the Table

I wrote something about Bill Willingham’s Fables comics in this post, but since then I’ve read much more of the series. The local library system had all of the trade paperback collections up through Volume 16. I’m anxious to read … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Comics, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged big bad wolf, bigby wolf, bill willingham, bufkin, bungle the glass cat, fables, fafhrd and the grey mouser, frau totenkinder, fritz leiber, jack pumpkinhead, nome king, old king cole, ozma, pinocchio, rose red, sawhorse, snow white |

Ozma vs. Pragmatism

It’s almost the twenty-first of August, which means it’s time to celebrate the birthday of Ozma, Royal Ruler of Oz. Okay, I don’t know that I’m really going to be doing much celebrating, but I do like to acknowledge it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Comics, Edward Einhorn, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video Games | Tagged bill willingham, emerald city confidential, fables, nome king, ozma, ozma of oz, paradox in oz, the emerald city of oz |

Paging Dr. Swineheart

I’ve been reading some of the earlier volumes in Bill Willingham’s Fables series, and the characters include both ones I’m quite familiar with and ones I hadn’t heard of before. One of the latter is the surgeon Dr. Swineheart, who … Continue reading →

Fictional Characters Walk Among Us

As a fairy tale fan, I recently decided I should try watching Once Upon a Time. Most of the episodes aren’t available, but I did see the pilot and the most recent ones, which were On Demand. It’s made by … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, Comics, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Jasper Fforde, Lewis Carroll, Mythology, Nursery Crime, Nursery Rhymes, Once Upon a Time, Oz, Television, Thursday Next | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, bill willingham, disney, edward lear, fables, jack pumpkinhead, jiminy cricket, king midas, lost, mad hatter, march hare, ozma, pinocchio, rumpelstiltskin, shakespeare, snow white, snow white and the seven dwarfs, the adventures of pinocchio, the big over easy, the fourth bear |