queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Baum’s Birthday Blowout

Yesterday was L. Frank Baum’s birthday, and the day before that, Michael Booth set up a virtual event to celebrate. There weren’t that many attendees, but it included presentations, and I’m too disorganized and socially awkward to arrange something like … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, Chris Dulabone, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aging, death, enilrul, hank and the scarecrow of oz, immortality, imps, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead and the sawhorse, little dorothy and toto, lurline, michael booth, ojo and the woozy, oz film manufacturing company, ozma and the little wizard, philip john lewin, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, robert pattrick, sky island, squirrel king, the lavender bear of oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the patchwork girl of oz, the three imps of oz, tim tucker, wizard of oz |

Nonestic Promotion

One thing I think about occasionally is the promotion that the Oz books received in their heyday. L. Frank Baum had been a salesman and a contributor to a magazine about decorating shop windows, so it’s not too surprising that he … Continue reading →

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Fact Within Fiction

It’s a strange thing to me that a world presented in a work of fiction can be basically just like ours, except without that work, and often related ones, existing in it, even if it’s very popular in the real … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Comics, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, becky klein, bob up, button-bright, david hulan, david perry, dorothy gale, emerald city, glinda, jenny jump, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, lucky bucky in oz, lucky bucky jones, marvel comics, nome king, notta bit more, ojo in oz, ozma, ozmapolitan, patchwork girl, peter brown, polychrome, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, red jinn, shaggy man, sky island, spider-man, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the glass cat of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the tik-tok man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonder city of oz, tik-tok of oz, tippetarius in oz, tompy terry, trot griffiths, twink and tom jones, walt mcdougall, wizard of oz, yankee, yankee in oz |

Ozian-American Studies

The five most recent stories on Hungry Tiger Tales are fairly obscure promotional material for the Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz comic pages. A set of faux news stories about the visitors landing on various planets before … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Characters, Comics, Food, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged chicago record-herald, gumdrops, gump, herby, hungry tiger press, hungry tiger tales, jack pumpkinhead, ozma, ozmapolitan, paul tietjens, professor wogglebug, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, sawhorse, scarecrow, the giant horse of oz, the marvelous land of oz, thick tamales for attenuated artists, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, what did the woggle-bug say? |

Fairyland Lost

Anyone who’s read the Oz books from The Emerald City of Oz on knows that residence in that fairyland grants certain magical effects, including a lack of aging unless you want to grow older, and presumably the inability to die … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Comics, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aging, beach blanket babyloz, bilbil, billina, christopher buckley, death, dorothy gale, ev, farmooth urbof, george van buren, glinda, glinda of oz, humpty bumpty, immortality, jeremy steadman, kabumpo, lucky bucky in oz, ozma, ozma of oz, paul dana, queen zixi of ix, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, rinkitink in oz, samandra, scarecrow, the emerald city of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the enchanted apples of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the silver princess in oz, the witch queen of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, toto, urbof effect, wizard of oz, zimbo and the magic amulet |

A Space Ozyssey

I’ve examined the possible location of the Land of Oz and its surrounding fairylands in the past. To sum up, the earlier books seem to place it in some hidden part of our Earth, while more recent ones tend to … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Gina Wickwar, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged anuther planet, argo, big dipper, cancer, demon of electricity, gump, james howe, jupiter, kass stone, kenneth gage baum, man in the moon, mars, mister tinker in oz, moon, mother goose in prose, neptune, ozma of oz, ozmapolitan, polaris, professor wogglebug, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, saturn, scarecrow, sky island, smith and tinker, speedy, stars, stratovania, the dinamonster of oz, the hidden prince of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the man in the moon, the martian invasion of oz, the master key, the silver princess in oz, the yellow knight of oz, three-headed elvis clone found in flying saucer over oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, uranus, ursa minor, yankee in oz, zodiac |

Oz Con Artists

I’ve written before about how L. Frank Baum’s position on trickery is somewhat mixed. As someone who had worked as a salesman, he knew the value of a certain amount of balderdash in order to sell things to people. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged bell-snickle, deception, frogman, humbug, kiki aru, kwytoffle, mother goose in prose, nome king, ozma of oz, phanfasms, professor wogglebug, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the magic of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, wheelers, whimsies, wizard of oz |

See You in the Funny Pages

Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz: The Complete Comic Strip Saga 1904-1905, published by Sunday Press – I received this oversize collector’s item as a Christmas gift, which is good as I’m not sure I would have bought … Continue reading →

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All I Know Is What I Read in the Papers

The Ozmapolitan was an interesting promotional tool, first coming out in 1904 to advertise The Marvelous Land of Oz and the upcoming Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz comic series. It was presented as an actual newspaper from … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Dick Martin, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged emerald city, emerald city mirror, eric gjovaag, gina wickwar, hungry tiger press, international wizard of oz club, joe bongiorno, karyl carlson, newspapers, nome kingdom, oz-story magazine, ozma, ozmapolitan, queen ann in oz, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the woggle-bug book, tik-tok, toto of oz |

Best Friends Forever and Even Longer

We’ve established that there aren’t very many ROMANTIC couples in the Oz books, but there are a whole lot of best friend pairs. Some people choose to make them romantic pairings as well, because that’s what fans of pretty much … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged betsy bobbin, button-bright, cap'n bill, comfortable camel, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, doubtful dromedary, guardian of the gates, hank the mule, hungry tiger, jack pumpkinhead, kabumpo, little wizard stories of oz, ojo, omby amby, ozma, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, sawhorse, scarecrow, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths |