Oz and Ends

Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.

30 January 2013

Looking Back on Follow My Leader

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Tami Lewis Brown at From the Mixed-Up Files interviewed Candlewick editor Kaylan Adair, and one passage rang a familiar chord for me: I...
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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28 January 2013

The Evolution of Grease Monkey

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Tim Eldred has published his comic Grease Monkey in a variety of ways: as a series of indy comics starting in the mid-1990s, with presses...
27 January 2013

Kyle Higgins’s First Version of Nightwing

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Kyle Higgins, current scripter of DC's Nightwing magazine, studied filmmaking at the University of Iowa and Chapman University. Befor...
26 January 2013

Fast Food and the Caped Crusader

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I recently read a study in Pediatric Obesity titled “What would Batman eat?: priming children to make healthier fast food choices.” Unfo...
25 January 2013

OIP Derangement Syndrome Comes Out of Recess

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Today a panel of judges on the US Circuit Court for the District of Columbia ruled that President Barack Obama overstepped his authority in ...
24 January 2013

“Strong inky lines” and “swift composition”

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The Poopsheet Foundation, which reviews indy and small-press comics, has nice things to say about The Greatest of All Times Comics Anthol...
22 January 2013

Grant Parsley’s Wizard of Oz in Relief

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Grant Parsley of Dallas has shared three of his illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Behance.net and other sites. At the ...
20 January 2013

Reading the Memo on Damian Wayne

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One of the most interesting elements of Batman and Robin: Born to Kill , by Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason with Mick Gray, is the “st...
18 January 2013

The NRA’s OIP Derangement Syndrome

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This week the organization that claims to speak for America’s gun fandom, the National Rifle Association, released an online ad calling Pres...
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