The Oz Enthusiast

A number of postcards were produced as souvenirs - and advertising - for the 1903 Broadway production of The Wizard of Oz . I showed one...

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz seems to have gone through more variations in appearance than most of the other Oz books.  I think the most ...

This is Strasheela, the Scarecrow character in the Russian series of Oz books. I'm not a collector of foreign editions of the Oz series...

This is a funny little piece I recently ran across. It's a charm bracelet, made as a premium for the 1964 cartoon television special ...

Our stained glass rendition of Polychrome returning to her rainbow is finished! After passing through the stages of design, cutting, fitti...

The Polychrome window is progressing nicely. Here's a shot showing the start of laying out the rainbow. There's quite a way to go ye...

Another Rand McNally title with a W. W. Denslow cover - Margaret Wynne , by Adeline Sergeant, published in 1898. Denslow's trademark se...

I've wanted to do a stained glass piece based on this illustration by John R. Neill, from 1909's The Road to Oz, for a long time....

On December 14th, 1902, the New York Herald published four comic pages by W. W. Denslow. These were Denslow's Christmas Tales , and used...

I couldn't resist showing this piece - unfortunately it's not in my collection, just passing through my hands to another collector...

Here's another page by Skottie Young from the award winning Eric Shanower/Skottie Young adaptations of the Oz books, published by Mar...

I haven't had a new W. W. Denslow cover design  to show in quite a while. This one is a little different - The Story of Louise , by De ...

After the photo last week of Montgomery & Stone, I thought I'd share a couple odd little photos I ran across online while looking ...

(Note - Since posting this, the actors in this photo have been re-identified! See this post for further details.) After all the excitem...

Here for Easter is a magazine page of artwork by John R. Neill - The Hare-Brained Bunnies' Easter Party . These wonderful vignettes ar...

One of the results of a new Oz movie opening, has been several gallery shows of Oz-inspired artwork. It's always fun to see differen...