Showing posts with label ARTIST John R. Neill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ARTIST John R. Neill. Show all posts
15 September 2020

Turning Ojo into Woot

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A recent online discussion about the relative ages of L. Frank Baum’s young male protagonists took me back almost twenty years to when Ozian...
14 March 2020

The Magic Wand of Tudor Jenks

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I’ve been enjoying the Magic Wand book set by Tudor Jenks, published in 1905. This collection of modern fairy tales first came to my att...
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22 December 2015

Slice of Life

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At the Hungry Tiger Talk blog, David Maxine has written about the one-of-a-kind Oz-related item that was part of our first meeting, when we...
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10 November 2015

The Emerald City in the Gutter

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Here’s another view of the map of Oz as issued by Reilly & Lee. Can you spot two big differences between it and the map shown last wee...
03 November 2015

zO fo paM suoiretsyM ehT

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At the Hungry Tiger Talk blog, David Maxine has been presenting his research into the many maps of Oz. In his latest , he shares informati...
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03 June 2014

Google’s Scalawagons

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Various forms of The Wizard of Oz are so famous that it’s common to see allusions to that story. But The Scalawagons of Oz , written and ...
28 November 2013

Let Us Be Thankful That This Isn’t Rerun Every Year

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In 1980 the Muller Rosen animation company released a half-hour holiday special for television titled Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz . Tha...
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11 September 2013

A Shirt Is a Terrible Thing to Waist

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Yesterday I quoted L. Frank Baum ’s description in The Patchwork Girl of Oz of a Munchkin boy wearing “a blue ruffled waist.” When I first...
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10 September 2013

Ojo’s “Ruffled Waist”?

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This is the cover of The Patchwork Girl of Oz as redesigned and redrawn by Dick Martin, based on John R. Neill ’s art for the first editi...
27 March 2013

Oh, Little China Girl

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One of the new characters in Oz the Great and Powerful is the China Girl, an inhabitant of a village of china people who appear to have b...
19 March 2013

Inspiration Bubbling Up

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Even with the relatively awkward special effects of 1939, Glinda’s pink bubble in The Wizard of Oz is an American icon. So much so that t...
08 January 2013

Prince Bobo’s Place in Nature

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This is the frontispiece from Thomas Huxley ’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863). It shows the skeletons of four apes and a hum...
03 April 2012

Changes in Oz We Can Believe In

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At VoVatia (mirrored at the Royal Blog of Oz ), Nathan DeHoff extended the discussion begun in part here of the power and appeal of the st...
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07 February 2012

A Lesson from Sir Hokus

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My thoughts on the value of a ongoing characters having an unresolvable foundational conflict  have their roots, I realize, in thinking abou...
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06 December 2011

Our First Glimpse of Evardo XV

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The picture above, by John R. Neill , comes from the end of Ozma of Oz . It shows the dowager queen of Ev and her eldest son, the new King E...
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29 November 2011

Kaliko Vision

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In L. Frank Baum ’s Ozma of Oz , Roquat the Nome King is served by a Nome introduced this way: Meantime the King ordered refreshments to be...
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22 November 2011

The Tin Woodman’s Head on My Mind

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In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , W. W. Denslow gave the Tin Woodman a skull-shaped head. Of course, the long nose and ears riveted on tha...
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15 November 2011

Cartoon Art Museum Has Gone to Oz

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Last week the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco opened an exhibit on Oz comics . It draws heavily on the collection of Peter Maresca, publ...
08 November 2011

The Influence of Scalawagons

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Scalawagons of Oz  might well be John R. Neill ’s most influential book. Not because it’s good. In fact, it’s the worst of the three or four...
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23 August 2011

Knitting Needles in Oz

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The September/October 2011 issue of Piecework magazine ( current link here , but it won’t last) has the theme of “needlework in literature....