tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post9168651673452419205..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: Designs on Illustrating The Wonderful Wizard of OzUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-75788217730229778962011-05-16T12:18:45.124-05:002011-05-16T12:18:45.124-05:00Color was a big part of the Oz books as originally...Color was a big part of the Oz books as originally published. They had color plates, color printing on the pages, or (in the case of <i>The Road to Oz</i>) colored paper. <br /><br />But my generation grew up mostly with the “white cover” editions, issued without color illustrations on bright white paper. Baum’s texts still emphasized the colors of Oz, but we had to imagine it from black and white.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-29099503846475825002011-05-16T09:05:51.284-05:002011-05-16T09:05:51.284-05:00I remember as a child noticing the green color in ...I remember as a child noticing the green color in the illustrations that you mention. Never did I think of printers, inkers, designers, layout artists -- I just thought it was natural that the pages would become green as they approached the Emerald City. (This is probably related to my still thinking, many decades later, that Oz is real.)Chauceriannoreply@blogger.com