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30 March 2026

“The 3-year-old comedian is so proud of his injury”

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The 22 Oct 1922 Portland Oregonian , and probably some other newspapers around the same time, ran this story from Hollywood: Jackie Condon, ...
09 February 2026

Another Addition to the Jackie Condon Filmography

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Discontented Wives was a five-reel melodrama directed by and starring J. P. McGowan, released in September 1921. The American Film Insti...
11 July 2023

Contents of The Characters of Oz

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Last week I introduced The Characters of Oz , a collection of essays that I contributed to, edited by Dina Schiff Massachi. Since I don’t...
16 September 2020

Coming Over the Wire

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KidLit411 is featuring an interview with my writing colleague Lisa Robinson about her new picture book Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope D...
06 August 2020

Hondo from Story to Screenplay to Novel

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In a collection of Louis L’Amour stories, I came across this passage in Jon Tuska’s introduction, explaining how L’Amour’s first sale in t...
16 May 2020

New Fun with Jack and Bill

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In 1935, National Publications issued its first magazine collection of original comics. New Fun was thus the first comic book from the co...
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18 November 2014

“The Wizard of Oz teapot tempest”

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In 1957 Ralph Ulveling, director of the Detroit Public Library, received nationwide criticism for remarks he was reported as having made abo...
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11 April 2014

Getting the Message on OIP Derangement Syndrome

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This week’s study in OIP Derangement Syndrome is Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia, one of three members of Congress running for the Republica...
02 March 2014

Kyle Higgins’s Last Words on Dick Grayson?

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DC Comics is touting an upcoming issue of Secret Origins as writer Kyle Higgins ’s last word on Dick Grayson, whom he’s been writing in N...
03 February 2014

Right Wing Just Can’t Say Cheerio to Bigotry

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In May 2013, Cheerios ran a commercial featuring a family with a black father, white mother, and cute little girl. That prompted a spew of...
03 December 2013

Parade Balloons Over 75 Years

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Macy’s 1939 parade included a Tin Man balloon to promote MGM’s new movie, The Wizard of Oz . For the movie’s seventy-fifth anniversary (...
03 July 2013

Missing Voices in the Discussion of Multicultural Book Sales

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Last month Lee and Low asked on its blog, “Why Hasn’t the Number of Multicultural Books Increased In Eighteen Years?” That’s an important q...
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03 February 2013

What Legacies Left Us

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DC Universe: Legacies was a comics series published in 2010-11 during an apparent wave of nostalgia at DC Comics. It was scripted by Len ...
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12 December 2012

Top Ten Trendiest Trends

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In December 2010, Scholastic’s book club, book fair, and publishing editors looked back at the preceding months and agreed on “Ten Trends in...
10 November 2012

Ahoy! A Little More Teen Boat!

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This week I ran up against a short Teen Boat! story that didn’t make it into the collection. Okay, it’s a promotion for the last Toront...
23 October 2012

Finally an Explanation for Dorothy’s Strange Dream

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Caleb Crain alerted me to the existence of this public safety poster from the Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Health Department: Doroth...
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22 October 2012

Lemony Fish

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Yesterday the Boston Globe ran an  interview with Daniel Handler , representative of Lemony Snicket , which included this exchange about ...
01 October 2012

Baum and The Inland Printer

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In the 1890s L. Frank Baum and his family moved to Chicago. He supported them as a freelance journalist and traveling salesman before par...
18 September 2012

Allegro non Toto

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Some puns work better than others. This is from an ad for the New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation training , celebrati...
17 September 2012

Dark Horse Stumbles?

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There’s only one reason that Dark House Books reprinted It Rhymes with Lust , script credited to Drake Waller and art to Matt Baker and Ra...