Showing posts with label Cowardly Lion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cowardly Lion. Show all posts
12 September 2026

When Harold Met Hal

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Harold Eugene “Hal (or sometimes Harry)” Roach was born in Elmira, New York, in 1892. As a boy, Hal admired the local celebrity Mark Twain...
29 October 2025

The Wizard of Balboa Park

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The San Diego Civic Light Opera Association was founded in 1945. Its first show was Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado  in the Wegeforth Bowl...
22 August 2023

Baum’s Contradictory Characters

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In my Characters of Oz essay “A Good Man but a Bad Wizard?: The Shifting Moral Character of the Wizard of Oz,” I took the opportunity to ta...
25 February 2020

Art for “The Axman’s Arm”

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At Skookworks, David Lee Ingersoll has just shared his illustrations from the 2006 issue of Oziana magazine, which I edited and produced...
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24 November 2015

“It was gingham, with checks of white and blue”

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Yesterday Bonhams sold a dress for $1,565,000. It was made for a Kansas farmgirl in the early 20th century. Now that sum’s only about h...
04 November 2014

The Return of the Cowardly Lion

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On 24 November, the Bonham’s auction house will offer a collection of Hollywood memorabilia that includes Bert Lahr’s Cowardly Lion costu...
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16 September 2014

Breakfast in Oz

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Perhaps L. Frank Baum’s biggest strength (and occasional weakness) as a writer was in how he exhibited all of his characters’ different ou...
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13 January 2014

The Lion’s Panels and Mine

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Back in November I shared this image of a medal-bearing lion, drawn by Denise Ortakales as a symbol of the New England conference of the S...
26 November 2013

Creating Bravely with SCBWI New England in May

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This proud lion adorns the announcement of SCBWI New England ’s 2014 conference in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 2-4 May. A “Save the Date”...
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30 April 2013

Bert Lahr and That Certain Air

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This is an illustration by Glen Orbik , who specializes in old-fashioned “pulp”-style covers for books and magazines. Orbik portrays MGM’s...
02 April 2013

“He wasn’t so much of a Wizard as he might have been.”

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This is how Tip, the young hero of L. Frank Baum ’s second Oz book , explains the first to his creation Jack Pumpkinhead: “Where are we g...
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28 March 2013

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Bechdel Test

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Critics of Oz the Great and Powerful have been lauding L. Frank Baum ’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a first-wave feminist fable, but I...
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29 January 2013

A Darker Dorothy in London

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Opening next month at the Immersion Theatre in London , Dorothy in Oz , a “skewed adaptation” of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of O...
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03 July 2012

Nobody Eats Dogs Here!

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Artist Billy Nunez shares his concept sketches for “The Wizard of Oz in China” (which include some touches from other parts of the Pacifi...
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26 June 2012

Open Heart Surgery on the Yellow Brick Road?

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This portrayal of the companions from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is by Sabrina Alberghetti, an artist in Vancouver, via deviantArt. She ...
22 May 2012

Darkside Is Coming, Now Nothing Is Real

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The Morton Report recently featured Bill Baker’s online conversation with artist Tommy Castillo about a book called The Art of The Darksid...
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13 October 2011

Art from Oz

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The Australian picture-book artist Ben Wood is aiming to post an Oz illustration every day of this month . Above is his take on Ojo the Luc...
19 July 2011

“Follow the Yellow Brick Road” as an Earworm

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Conversations at the recent Winkie Convention made me resolve to post something Ozzy on every Tuesday, at least, in order to justify this b...
17 October 2009

Five Observations on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Comic

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As Eric Shanower and Skottie Young ’s comics adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz continues its sojourn on the hardcover “graphic nov...