Showing posts with label AUTHOR Eric Shanower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AUTHOR Eric Shanower. Show all posts
21 August 2018

Discovering Lost Tales of Oz

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Joe Bongiorno’s Royal Publisher of Oz releases its latest book today : the short-story anthology Lost Tales of Oz , featuring illustrations ...
14 August 2014

Wrapping Up the Winkie Convention, part 3

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Here’s the final schedule for the final day of the 2014 Winkie Convention in San Diego—Sunday, 10 August. Sunday, 8:30 am Ozzy Tai Chi l...
12 August 2014

Wrapping Up the Winkie Convention, part 1

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I’ve rarely updated this blog over the past several weeks, though not because I didn’t find topics I wanted to write about. Rather, I didn...
19 March 2014

Kick-star-ter for Tik-Tok

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This week I pledged in a Kickstarter campaign for a production of The Tik-Tok Man of Oz , first shown in 1913-14, at this summer’s Winkie ...
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14 January 2014

Leaving Us Wishing for More

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Marvel Comics has halted its series of adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books at the end of Baum’s first series: The Emerald City of Oz ,...
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20 July 2013

Back to Slumberland

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The good news from Comic-Con : IDW will publish new adventures of Winsor McCay ’s little Nemo in Slumberland by top comics talent. The gre...
20 April 2013

Torn About the Eisners, and a Bookstore Appearance

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The new Eisner Nominations for “Best Publication for Kids (ages 8-12)” present me with a dilemma: Adventure Time , by Ryan North, Shelli...
06 November 2012

Shanower on the State of Kids’ Comics, In and Out of Oz

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Back in September, Newsarama interviewed comics creator Eric Shanower about the embarkation of the Marvel comics adaptation of The Road ...
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28 June 2012

Bill Willingham on Oz in the Fables Universe

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Sequential Tart interviewed  writer Bill Willingham , who’s been slowly unrolling some Oz-themed storylines in his Fables comic book: ST:...
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05 June 2012

Oz Museum and Opera in the Works

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This Boston Globe interview with illustrator Bob Staake alerted me to work on an opera based on L. Frank Baum ’s The Road to Oz . Googling...
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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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...
11 October 2011

One of These Things Is Not Like the Others

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For each of the four Oz-book adaptations he’s scripted for Marvel Comics, Eric Shanower has drawn a variant cover for at least one issue. ...
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28 September 2011

Filling the Big Hole in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

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Yesterday I quoted from Newsarama ’s interview with Eric Shanower and Skottie Young about their new adaptation of L. Frank Baum ’s fourth...
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27 September 2011

The Darkness of Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

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Eric Shanower and Skottie Young have reached Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz , the fourth title, in their adaptation of L. Frank Baum ’s Oz n...
12 July 2011

“Oz Comics Today” Two Days Ago

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Last weekend I traveled to the Monterey Peninsula for the 2011 Winkie Convention, a gathering of Wizard of Oz fans from the western US and e...
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24 February 2011

To Ozopolis and Back

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Ozopolis is a new Oz comic, written and published by Kirk Kushin and illustrated in black and white by Gonzalo Martinez. It’s firmly based ...
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22 February 2011

Bufkin the Bibulous, Bufkin the Brave

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From the very first issues of Fables , scripted by Bill Willingham and drawn mainly by Mark Buckingham with Steve Leialoha , L. Frank Baum...
26 January 2011

Yet More Oz Comics to Collect

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The latest installment of Bill Willingham ’s comic serial Fables , issue #101, offers yet another approach to creating Oz comics from Eric S...
04 August 2010

Visiting Ozopolis

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David Maxine at Hungry Tiger Press alerted me to a new Oz comic book called Ozopolis , written by Kirk Kushin and illustrated by Gonzalo Ma...
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