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Threadneedle, Frost, Brown, and Smith, Limited

The 1987 Oziana contains four stories, one much shorter than the others, all of which are of the sort that complement the main series. The front cover shows Melody Grandy’s illustration of Robin Olderman’s idea for the Quadling flag. A note … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Board Games, Characters, Dice, Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Melody Grandy, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Pachisi, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bill eubank, bill stillman, blankenburg, button-bright, button-bright and the knit-wits of oz, chris sterling, cookywitches, dorothy gale, flags, fred meyer, fuddlecumjig, glinda, jack frost, james e. haff, jim vander noot, knit-wits, knitting, laughing valley of hohaho, oziana, parcheesi, peter brown, pirates in oz, polychrome, professor wogglebug, puns, robin olderman, stichwell j. threadneedle, sugarene, the blizzard of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the ice king of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost king of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the other searches for the lost princess, the runaway shadows, the two peters, the woggle-bug's new clothes, thumbumbia, tippetarius, tyler tichelaar |

Dear Dairy

Scan by Jared Davis Here we are, safe and sound, back in good old Oziana 1985. The cover has a drawing of the Nome King by Eric Shanower, which is kind of confusing, as I know Ruggedo appears in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Fred Otto, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged badmannah, bucketheads in oz, cows, dr. pipt, father goose, giants, horners, ice cream, jack pumpkinhead, jane mcneive, jay delkin, jellia jamb, jim vander noot, jimb jamb, joe bongiorno, john dough and the cherub, king kleaver, liquid of petrifaction, magic in the kitchen, mark manley, michael gessel, mombi, mombi's pink polkadot vest, mr. yoop, mrs. yoop, nome king, oziana, ozma, paul dana, phogg horner, polychrome, red jinn, robert luehrs, robin olderman, sir pryse bocks, the baum bugle, the butter lamb of oz, the fate of the yoops, the hearts and flowers of oz, the ice cream man of oz, the lost king of oz, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the shaggy man of oz, thrug, tottenhots, utensia, wicked witch of the west, witches |

Meatless Mortality

We know that flesh-and-blood people and animals are pretty much functionally immortal in Oz. They can be potentially be destroyed, but won’t die of old age or disease, and even being torn into pieces isn’t necessarily fatal. What I sometimes … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Food, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bunbury, carter green, dorothy and the wizard in oz, immortality, jack pumpkinhead, jim vander noot, john dough, john dough and the cherub, king of the fairy beavers, lurline, mangaboos, oziana, plants, the disenchanted princess of oz, the emerald city of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the ice cream man of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tippetarius in oz, tommy kwikstep, vegetables, wam, zim greenleaf |

The Best of Inventions

If you’ve read the Oz books, you might remember Smith and Tinker as the creators of Tik-Tok, as well as the Giant with the Hammer and, as per Rachel Cosgrove Payes, the Hundred-Year Alarm Clock. I’ve written about them before … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Hugh Pendexter, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged a side view of the nonestic islands, button-bright and the knit-wits of oz, dcim wainwright, ev, frank joslyn baum, frost 'n freeze, giant with the hammer, glinda and the red jinn, hundred-year alarm clock, inventors, james howe, jim vander noot, jubulut, julius quickscissors, martha cornog, mister tinker in oz, mr. smith, mr. tinker, oziana, ozma of oz, red jinn, robert pattrick, robots, rosine and the laughing dragon of oz, singra, smith and tinker, speckoscope, stumbling blocks, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the witch queen of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok, timothy perper, wishful fixing lotion, wooglet in oz |

Names for the Nameless

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, there aren’t that many characters with proper names. Even the ones who do have them tend not to have last names. The stage play gave Dorothy a last name and the Tin Woodman a … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Fred Otto, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Peter Clarke, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adam nicolai, alexander volkov, aunt em, captain fyter, cayke the cookie cook, charles phipps, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dot and tot of merryland, dr. pipt, eric gjovaag, fairy beavers, frogman, good witch of the north, guardian of the gates, henry blossom, hungry tiger, james howe, jim vander noot, john dough and the cherub, kalidahs, karyl carlson, lin carter, mark haas, names, nine tiny piglets, paul dana, queen zixi of ix, rob roy macveigh, scarecrow, shaggy man, the emerald city of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the road to oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, uncle henry, wam, winged monkeys, 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 |

Put Your Hand Inside the Buckethead

Bucketheads in Oz, by Greg Gick, Melody Grandy, Greg Hunter, Phyllis Ann Karr, Chuck Sabatos, Deen Shumate, Jim Vander Noot, and Chris Dulabone – While there is a justification for the title in a short scene where two characters accidentally … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Oz | Tagged buckethead enterprises of oz, bucketheads in oz, chris dulabone, chuck sabatos, conflagra, cowardly lion, deen shumate, effer pheasant the bubble bird, greg gick, greg hunter, harley hammer-head, jim vander noot, kalidahs, kericot the considerate kalidah, leotryaton the lazy lion, melody grandy, mombi, osborne austin, oziana, phyllis ann karr, shawn maldonado, tails of the cowardly lion and friends, tekrouri troll, terrence oldshell, the guardian dove, tisha rae the jackalope, wally the woggle-bug |