The Oz Enthusiast

Earlier this month I attended the New York Antiquarian Book Fair. There are always fascinating things to be seen at the Fair, many with a...

I've just received an original Victor recording of Montgomery & Stone performing "Travel, Travel Little Star", a comic num...

Here are a couple more early newspaper pages by John R. Neill, published in the Philadelphia North American in 1902. The first is a simple...

I've really been neglecting my blog this year - but I'm afraid that's bound to happen from time to time! Here's an endpape...

As Valentine's Day is just around the corner, I thought I'd show a couple of Ozzy Valentine cards. These are part of a set of 12 tha...

Happy New Year! I'm afraid I'm off to a slow start for posting, but I've been tied up with several projects, mostly non-Oz relat...

Here's a fun item that found its way under the Christmas tree this year. This is a toy lion, of the same variety used by Graham Rawle as...

Here in time for Christmas is another early newspaper piece by John R. Neill, "Tostynge Appels at ye Merrie Yuletide". This was p...

Here's a newspaper page from 110 years ago, December, 22 1901. This features a grand and colorful John R. Neill drawing of a Christmas ...

I'm afraid I've been neglecting my blog this month - but December is always a busy time! The New York Public Library is featuring th...

It's been a while since I've had a new W.W. Denslow book cover to show! Here we have a Rand McNally paperback printing of A Modern ...

It's a good thing Billina isn't a turkey!

Here's a quick post to show progress on the Oz window. On the right, I'm working on painting details on various pieces before firi...

I was recently contacted by Ike Morgan's great nephew, who is working on gathering information on his great uncle. Unfortunately, I didn...

Back in August, I mentioned that we would be making another Oz-themed stained glass window for a local client. It's been underway, and h...

Just in time for Halloween - here's a tray of Wicked Witch heads in production at the R. John Wright doll company. The cackling must be ...

While doing some searching online, I ran across this ad for L. Frank Baum's The Master Key . I thought it was pretty humorous - and foun...

Well, not really...but there is a cartoon by Charles Addams from the June 6, 1939 New Yorker magazine that makes me think of Oz. This was p...

I've finally pulled together a Zazzle shop - the OzShop - using the paintings I've been doing based on illustra- tions of Oz charac...

Here's some more fun, early Oz material, thanks again to the resources of the New York Public Library digital gallery . While poking a...