30 August 2011

Elementary Adaptations of Oz

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Back in March, Blair Frodelius’s Daily Ozmapolitan noted an article in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette about the St. Joseph Central Elementa...
28 August 2011

“Bressler’s breathing into his mouth”

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The last weekly Robin was all about the Dynamic Duo demonstrating the Heimlich maneuver on national television, and how that cartoon might ...
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26 August 2011

One Never Knows, Do One?

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PBS’s website is displaying an interview from Scientific American with James Pennebaker, a professor of psychology at the University of Tex...
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25 August 2011

Blood, Toil, Sweat, and Tiers

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Carol Burrell of Lerner Graphic Universe just offered a posting on comics page design that gave me cause to think: “If we compare comics t...
24 August 2011

Jane Yolen: “The children don’t care about the politicians”

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The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, just ran an interview with author Jane Yolen , prompted by her response to news that Sen. Ron Joh...
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....
21 August 2011

How Robin Saved a Life—Through Television

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In one of Marc Tyler Nobleman’s interviews with people behind the Superfriends television cartoons of the 1970s and early 1980s, artist Da...
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20 August 2011

“The gates of magic were open to everyone…”

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This afternoon I happened to be thinking about how L. Frank Baum portrayed Dorothy in his Oz books as an “ordinary little girl,” not inhe...
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18 August 2011

Does Your Book Have Enough Motion?

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I was struck by this GalleyCat report on a web service called BookLamp that tries to do for reading what Pandora does for music: suggest ...
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16 August 2011

Discovering Illustrator Frank Kramer

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The latest issue of The Baum Bugle , the research journal of the International Wizard of Oz Club , is very impressive. Most of the content i...