Oz

Henry Rollins being awesome

source: Examiner.com

Whether or not the album will sync up with The Wizard of Oz is unknown at this time, but it will be released primarily on iTunes sometime next year. ...

Published Tue, Oct 20

Five Observations on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Comic

source: Oz and Ends

I saw one addition to this version which seemed to come from the MGM movie. After the Lion’s earlier, solo interview with the Wizard (appearing as a great ball of fire), the frightened beast runs out of the throne room and breaks through a door (“SCRUNCH”!). Quite reminiscent of the candy-pa...

Published Sat, Oct 17

Trippiest Kids Movies

source: New York Post

The Wizard of Oz: Even before it emerged that Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon could sync up with Oz for an ultra-trippy experience, the 1939 classic was ...

Published Fri, Oct 16

Opinion: Wizard of Oz Back on Bestseller List

source: Oz and Ends

I’ll quote from the perceptive review (i.e., I agree with its points) from The Graphic Classroom: Shanower took care in this adaptation by giving us details that have – for most people anyway – been lost because of the celluloid translation. In fact, so many details were left out of the movie t...

Published Tue, Oct 6

“I naturally thought of Oz”

source: Oz and Ends

There may even be a rule that the closer American children’s books come to Kansas, the more they have to allude to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and/or its sequels. Case in point: Matt Phelan’s graphic novel The Storm in the Barn, set in Kansas in 1937.

Published Thu, Sep 24

Stylin’ on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

source: Oz and Ends

The Design Inspiration collected depictions of Dorothy and her companions along the Yellow Brick Road in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from twenty-three different illustrators. They appear to be influenced largely by: the 1939 MGM movie. a wish to break expectations of what these characte...

Published Mon, Aug 3

The Road to Oz at 100

source: Oz and Ends

On Wednesday I mentioned my recent article on the big plot problem in Baum's previous Oz book, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. That adventure puts Dorothy and her companions in terrible danger, then rescues them magically with no preparation.

Published Fri, Jun 19

Humbugs Inside the Earth

source: Oz and Ends

Yesterday I mentioned my article on Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz in the latest Baum Bugle. Here is a passage from the book itself, as L. Frank Baum has his usual fun with authority figures. “We don’t have to prove it,” answered Dorothy, indignantly. “If you had any sense at all you’d known it was th...

Published Thu, Jun 18