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Krewl to Be Kynd

Here are two more in my ongoing series of Oz rereads: The Gardener’s Boy of Oz, by Phyllis Ann Karr – This is one of the better received apocryphal Oz books, which I guess isn’t too surprising as it’s by a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Monsters, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Toys | Tagged bermuda triangle, bucketheads in oz, candy longtaw, captain edward dauntless, dolls, fairies, forbidden tube, gilbert and sullivan, glinda, great gulf, griffins, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jinxland, kalidahs, kericot the considerate kalidah, king krewl, king kynd, king phearse, maybe the miffin, pon, rakpat, ruddigore, snif the iffin, sour notes, terrence oldshell, the boy baronet in oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the guardian dove, the hollyhock dolls in oz, the scarecrow of oz, tik-tok of oz, tititi-hoochoo, tizzland, ugu the shoemaker, winged monkeys |

Go Big or Go Home

Scan by Jared Davis This is Oziana for 1983. The cover was drawn by Eric Shanower for the previous year’s Winkie Convention, then repurposed here. It features several of L. Frank Baum and Ruth Plumly Thompson’s characters, with High Boy … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged big top mountain, bunnybury, cornucopia oziana, donkeys, emerald city, giants, high boy, jack pumpkinhead, jay v. groves, jinxland, lord googly-goo, mr. yoop, mrs. yoop, nero zeero: snoz of oz, oogaboo, oziana, ozma, pon, professor wogglebug, queen ann soforth, reera the red, rob roy macveigh, snozland, the emerald city of oz, the fate of the yoops, the gardener's boy of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the way to the emerald city, tippetarius in oz, whimsies, yookoohoos, yookoohoos of oz |

Falling for the Fairy Fellowship

I’ve mentioned the fairyland on the other side of the world from Oz a few times, but since I’m planning on writing some fiction that takes place there, I might as well detail what we know about it. It first … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chinese, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Monsters, Mythology, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Politics | Tagged ak, aristotle, astrology, constellations, dinosaurs, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragonettes, dragons, emerald city mirror, empyrean plane, fairies, flora, forbidden tube, four guardians, gilbert sprague, great gulf, great jinjin, green dragon of atlantis, hiergargo, immortal longings of oz, immortals, jinxland, king of animals, king of forests, kirin, lurline, monokeros, moon, original dragon, paul dana, phoenix, plato, queen erma, skanderbeg, sublunar realm, the gardener's boy of oz, the law of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tik-tok of oz, tititi-hoochoo, tortoises, tubekins, unicorns, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz |

Map Attack

On the map of the countries surrounding Oz from the Tik-Tok of Oz endpapers, L. Frank Baum included places from his non-Oz fantasies, including the as-yet-unpublished King Rinkitink that would become Rinkitink in Oz two years later. Most of these had already … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adam nicolai, bandits, beavers, boboland, chick the cherub, coregos, dorothy and the wizard in oz, ev, fairy beavers, hightown, hiland, international wizard of oz club, isle of phreex, james e. haff, jinxland, john dough, john dough and the cherub, king ato, king rinkitink, loland, mifkets, mo, nome kingdom, nomes, nonestic ocean, octagon isle, ozma of oz, palace of romance, pingaree, pirates, pirates in oz, princess jacquelin, regos, rinkitink in oz, ruprecht the castaway king, scoodlers, the emerald city of oz, the road to oz, the scalawagons of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the tales of yot, tik-tok of oz, valley of romance, vegetable kingdom |

Loyalty to Royalty

I like to make connections between pretty much everything and the Oz books, although usually the parallels aren’t that close. It works out better when I connect them to The Simpsons. People are saying the show predicted President Trump, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Characters, Current Events, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged boolooroo of the blues, dick tater, donald trump, election 2016, faleero, flatheads, glinda of oz, gludwig the glubrious, jinjur, jinxland, john dough and the cherub, kaliko, king ato, king bal loon, king kleaver, king krewl, kinglet of phreex, kwytoffle, loonville, lord googly-goo, nome king, nomes, ozma, pirates in oz, public opinion, pumperdink, queen coo-ee-oh, racism, rash, rinkitink in oz, sky island, the enchanted island of yew, the hungry tiger of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the purple prince of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the silver princess in oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, utensia, witches, wizard of oz |

Bah! There’s Always a War!

In addition to Glinda’s army, there are a lot of armed forces that show up in minor Ozian countries. Many are simply palace guards, but there are some more specific military units as well. Utensia has the Spoon Brigade, made … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged another adventure with ann, armies, belfaygor, bell-snickle, captain fyter, corabia, corumbia, dorothy gale, emerald city, eric gjovaag, flatheads, general blotz, general quakes, glinda, glinda of oz, gloria, grampa in oz, halidom, invasion, jack pumpkinhead, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jinjur, jinxland, karyl carlson, kiltoon, merry go round in oz, military, mogodore, mombi, nome king, oogaboo, ozma, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, ozwoz, princess melody, private jo files, pumperdink, queen ann in oz, queen ann soforth, red top mountain, regalia, rimmers, samandra, skeezers, spoon brigade, the emerald city of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tippetarius in oz, toto of oz, troth, utensia, war, zim greenleaf |

Southern Hozpitality

Now we turn to the Quadling Country, literally the “little four” country. The name suggests that it’s the fourth of the main Oz countries to be united. It’s probably at least partially inspired by the Southern United States, which explains … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged big enough mountain, bunbury, bunnybury, china country, cowardly lion, cuttenclips, frank joslyn baum, glinda, green mountain, hoppers, horners, james e. haff, jinxland, land of the barons, quadlings, ragbad, scare city, speedy in oz, the blue emperor of oz, the emerald city of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the road to oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, utensia, view-halloo |

No Money, Mo’ Problems

As I said back in this post, whether or not Oz uses some form of money is no more consistent than many other aspects of the series. Certainly the earlier books show money in use, with children paying for green … Continue reading →

Posted in Communism, Dick Martin, Economics, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Socialism | Tagged bill the weather-cock, david hulan, down town, emerald city, general quakes, glinda of oz, gold, grampa, grampa in oz, halidom, j. l. bell, jinxland, kiki aru, kimbaloo, king kinda jolly, king pompus, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, merry go round in oz, money, mooj, nome kingdom, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, ozma of oz, ozure isles, prince tatters of ragbad, pumperdink, quok, ragbad, rash, regalia, scarecrow, seebania, the emerald city of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the giant horse of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the queen of quok, the road to oz, the scarecrow of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok and the nome king, tin woodman, tippetarius, troth |

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 Animated Scarecrow

The Scarecrow from the Oz series is already animated, but in this case I’m talking about a different sort of animation. A computer-animated version of L. Frank Baum’s The Scarecrow of Oz is the latest project from the same people … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged cap'n bill, gloria, jinxland, krewl, lord googly-goo, ork, pon, scarecrow, the scarecrow of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths |