Showing posts with label the public domain belongs to all of us. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the public domain belongs to all of us. Show all posts
10 September 2019

Mid-Century Modern in the Emerald City

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After the original publisher of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz went bankrupt, Bobbs-Merrill became the book’s one and only US publisher. At...
30 July 2019

Sea Fairies and Sea Sirens

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Sea Sirens is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Amy Chu and Janet K. Lee. It’s subtitled A Trot & Cap’n Bill Adventure , and the ba...
14 November 2015

Planetary Copyright

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Here’s an interesting wrinkle about international copyright protections: The classic novella “The Little Prince” fell into the public do...
09 September 2014

Graphic Design in Oz

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This week brought news of a couple of new editions of The Wizard of Oz that concentrate on visual detail. As the Deseret News reported...
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21 May 2014

Tik-Tok and a Kalidah Walk into a Bar

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The comics universe of The Legend of Oz: The Wicked Witch and Legends of Oz: The Scarecrow will expand a little this summer as publisher...
14 November 2013

The Wonderful Wizard of You

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A tweet alerted me to this service , which offers to create an edition of L. Frank Baum’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz customized for yourself or...
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22 October 2013

Remember When Oz Was on TV Only Once a Year?

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Deadline has passed on the news of another television series based in some small way on the Oz mythos: Lifetime has put in development ...
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13 August 2013

No Place Like the Hospital

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This month Entertainment Weekly ’s website reported on a new Oz-themed TV show, sort of: CBS is taking a big swing with a new project with...
21 March 2013

The Real Sources of Oz the Great and Powerful

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Yesterday I noted how Oz the Great and Powerful credits “the Works of L. Frank Baum ” as its source but doesn’t actually draw much from th...
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20 March 2013

What Oz the Great and Powerful Draws from Baum’s Works

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The credits for Oz the Great and Powerful say the movie is “Based on the Works of L. Frank Baum .” Those works are in the public domain, ...
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...
18 February 2013

The Artful Dodger’s Back. And This Time It’s Personal

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Toward the end of Oliver Twist , the police arrest Jack Dawkins, alias the Artful Dodger, for stealing a silver snuffbox from a gentleman’...
19 November 2012

The Takedown

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At Publishers Weekly ’s PWxyz blog, Peter Brantley highlighted some new Republican thinking about copyright law that was quickly squelched ...
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31 October 2012

Nostalgia Was Originally a Disease

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This summer I stumbled across bits of my childhood entertainment on YouTube. Back when Bill Bixby was getting unlikably angry on CBS, he...
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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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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23 October 2011

Fight at the Guggenheim Museum

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Here’s a page from New Teen Titans: Games with visuals I found particularly striking. In this scene, George Pérez shows Joey (Jericho) Wil...
12 August 2011

It’s Birds! It’s Planes! It’s…Supermen!

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Supermen!: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes, 1936-1941 promises to fill gaps in “the origins and early development of superheroes and th...
18 July 2011

Don’t Let the Sidekick Drive the Steamroller

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Silver Age Comics just featured this cover by Alex Schomburg from Exciting Comics , #35, published in October 1944. Even for wartime, it se...
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03 June 2011

W. W. Denslow Goes Digital

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This spring the developers ustwo and AtomicAntelope released an iPad/iPhone app of nursery rhymes by W. W. Denslow, as reviewed here by Kirk...