Category Archives: Jared Davis

Snow Time Like the Past

Posted on January 30, 2026 by Nathan

Beth suggested writing about the history of snowmen, and a little bit of searching on the Internet brought up a few mentions of a book that sounded interesting, The Illustrated History of the Snowman, by Bob Eckstein. I’ve since bought and … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Buddhism, Cartoons, Comics, Discworld, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, Jared Davis, Magic, Music, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Prejudice, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sexuality, Television, Terry Pratchett, Toys, Video Games | Tagged antisemitism, bob eckstein, bodhidharma, boogg, book of hours, citizen kane, daruma, effigy, frost giants, frosty the snowman, frozen, giants, grampa in oz, hans christian andersen, icetown, isa poso, jotun, marvel comics, michelangelo buonarroti, ozcon international, paul coker jr., piero di medici, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, ruth burman, snowmen, snowy the traveling snowman, sourcery, ted eshbaugh, the hidden valley of oz, the illustrated history of the snowman, ymir, yukidaruma | Leave a comment

Tik-Tok on the Clock But the OzCon Don’t Stop

Posted on June 26, 2025 by Nathan

Beth and I went to OzCon International again this year. I hadn’t felt like doing much of anything as of late, so I didn’t contribute anything to the program this time. Actually, I thought I’d submitted a story about Pastoria … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Awards, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Eric Shanower, Fairy Tales, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Mario, Music, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Revisiting Disney, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged abba, alice in wonderland, amusement parks, andy sklar, anil tambwekar, aron toman, axel alonso, cesily collette taylor, cindy ragni, colin ayres, conventions, cosplay, costumes, craig miller, david diket, dick rutter, disneyland, dogs, dorothy gale, elphaba, emerald city, emkay shrader, freddy fogarty, frozen, giles crawford, glinda, greg ehrbar, gump, harry mongold, hel, international wizard of oz club, jeffrey mchale, jellia jamb, jen tracy, jim rutter, jordan monsell, king terribus of spor, lakitu, larry king, lyle conway, mario kart, merlin, mouseketeers, neil cuadra, nessarose, ozcon international, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, pastoria, paul dana, peter hanff, polychrome, rainbow road, return to oz, rob roy macveigh, ruth cuadra, sam milazzo, sharon commins, tara tagliaferro, tarot cards, the enchanted island of yew, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the rainbow road to oz, the wiz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tiffany sutton, tik-tok, tim hollis, tim tucker, tin woodman, tippetarius, tom thumb, toto, ultimate oz universe, victoria calamito, w.w. denslow, walt disney, wicked, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, writing | 1 Comment

This Could Be Oz, But You Playin’

Posted on July 25, 2024 by Nathan

I dragged Beth along to OzCon International, which was once again held at Kellogg West in Pomona, California. From what I understand, they raised their prices, so the convention was limited to two days, and we didn’t have access to … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Atticus Gannaway, Board Games, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Games, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sports, Video Games | Tagged a new wonderland, adventure in oz, aron toman, atticus gannaway, cindy ragni, colin ayres, cosplay, david maxine, diana ross, emerald city confidential, ervic, follow the yellow brick road, freddy fogarty, grampa, grampa in oz, j. l. bell, john fricke, john mundt, judy garland, juliana van riper, michael riley, neil cuadra, ozcon international, oziana, ozma, paul dana, peter brown, peter hanff, philips cd-i, pigasus, polychrome, reera the red, ruth cuadra, scavenger hunt, seinfeld, short circuit, super nintendo entertainment system, the chronicles of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wizard of oz: beyond the yellow brick road, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful game of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, treasures of oz, w.w. denslow, wicked, wonderful dizzy, yellow brick road | 5 Comments

The Multiversal Trendsetter

Posted on June 11, 2023 by Nathan

SPOILERS for all four movies! Soft & Quiet – A group of annoyingly entitled women meet up for a new group, which turns out to be a white supremacist organization. They use the standard racist rhetoric, with all its obvious … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Corporations, Families, Humor, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Prejudice, Relationships, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged america chavez, black bolt, bobcat goldthwait, bruce campbell, captain america, captain marvel, cowardly lion, doctor strange, doctor strange in the multiverse of madness, dr. christine palmer, dr. jonathan ohnn, dreamworks, fantastic four, gwen stacy, illuminati, inhumans, ironic racism, jane horrocks, jason priestley, kathy griffin, leonardo da vinci, lion of oz, lion of oz and the badge of courage, Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel comics, miguel o'hara, miles morales, monica rambeau, multiverse, patrick stewart, peggy carter, peni parker, peter parkedcar, peter parker, professor charles xavier, racism, reed richards, roger baum, sam raimi, scarlet witch, silly ozbuls, soft and quiet, spider-ham, spider-man, spider-man across the spider-verse, spider-man into the spider-verse, spider-man noir, spider-punk, superheroes, tim curry, vulture, white supremacy, wicked witch of the east, wizard of oz, x-men | 1 Comment

Been a Long Time Since I Rinkitinked

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Nathan

I’ve previously reviewed the 2016 Oziana, which consists of fifteen different alternate endings for Rinktink in Oz. I thought I should say a little more about each one, however, so here we go. Susan Johnson starts out by going in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Eric Shanower, Food, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a child's garden, aaron solomon adelman, andrew heller, baruch adelman, bilbil, christopher m. diket, dorothy gale, eggs, eleanor kennedy, ev, fix city, flattown, george van buren, gilgad, goats, high faluting city, how to be good, invisible inzi of oz, jackdaws, james bond, john w. kennedy, karen diket, king anko, king gos of regos, king rinkitink, kuik blackbab, maggie lockett, magic belt, mariah b'forre, mermaids, musicton, nikobob, nome king, nome kingdom, ouija board, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, ozmapolitan, patchwork girl, pearls of pingaree, prince bobo of boboland, prince inga of pingaree, puns, queen aquareine, queen cor of coregos, rinkitink in oz, robin hess, roodnite, sarah hadley, scarecrow, susan johnson, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway of oz, three trick caverns, toto and the cats of oz, tune town, virginia and robert wauchope, walkingbury, water of oblivion, wizard of oz, wizards, zog | 4 Comments

The Mistress of Misdirection

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Nathan

In my Oziana reread, I thought I might say a bit more about the 2012 issue, made up of a round robin story based on the brief fragment known only as “An Oz Book.” Robert Stanton Baum credited it to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Atticus Gannaway, Authors, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Dick Martin, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, March Laumer, Marcus Mebes, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Plays, Poetry, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Tom Holt | Tagged aging, ahriman, an oz book, betsy bobbin, carter green, chow bird, dorothy gale, emerald city, gilbert and sullivan, glinda of oz, good witch of the north, h.p. lovecraft, john wellington wells, kabumpo, kim mcfarland, krumbic witch, lake quad, lurline, magic belt, magic dishpan, magic picture, mike conway, mycroft mason, oziana, ozma, paul dana, paul ritz, percy the personality kid, queen coo-ee-oh, red jinn, robert stanton baum, ruddigore, sam milazzo, shawn maldonado, the baum bugle, the boy baronet in oz, the green dolphin of oz, the hollyhock dolls in oz, the lost princess of oz, the sorcerer, tik-tok of oz, time travel, witches, yips, yith | 5 Comments

Someone in Oz

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve been reading through the Oziana issues that I already reviewed pretty quickly, and I can’t think of much to add beyond what I’ve already said. I will mention that editor John L. Bell thought of the 2005 one as … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Beatrix Potter, Book Reviews, Characters, David Tai, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places | Tagged alejandro garcia, always look a gift goat in the mouth, anna-maria cool, arianna brown, executive decisions, fiddle's revenge, frogman, frogs, gabriel gale, general guph, glinda, griffins, gump, hammer-heads, horners, invisible fence, j. l. bell, jack and larry brenton, jeremy fisher, john fricke, kalidahs, king anko, li-mon-eags, michael patrick hearn, mombi, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, professor wogglebug, rak, red jinn, spiders, the art of oz, the axman's arm, the bashful baker of oz, the bashful baker's honeymoon, the emerald city of oz, the ork in oz, the red desert of oz, the royal explorers of oz, thy fearful symmetry, voyage of the crescent moon, wheelers | 1 Comment

There’s No Convention Like Home

Posted on July 19, 2021 by Nathan

OzCon International was virtual again this year, kind of a shame when I’d been getting used to going annually. Still, better safe than sorry, and I believe the typical resort isn’t even open again yet. Colin Ayres and Erica Olivera … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Comics, Eric Shanower, Fairy Tales, Humor, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video | Tagged a barnstormer in oz, arabian nights, caitlin masters, colin ayres, conventions, david maxine, dogs, eric gjovaag, erica olivera, grampa in oz, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead of oz, karyl carlson, mari ness, marvel comics, mikey dee, ozcon international, ozroy chase, philip jose farmer, queen ann in oz, racism, red jinn, royalty, ryan jay, sam milazzo, skottie young, slavery, the purple prince of oz, the royal book of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tik-tok man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), toto, yellow brick pod | 2 Comments

You Want Some Mo?

Posted on November 4, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve already written about elections and politics in Oz, so even though it’s Election Day here in the States, I’m going to write about a firmly entrenched royal family who never have to run for reelection, that of the Land of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Families, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships | Tagged cows, dragons, duchess bredenbutta, giants, gigaboo, hartilaf, history of prince zingle, king of mo, land of mo, maetta, monkeys, prince fiddlecumdoo, prince jollikin, prince the dog, prince thinkabit, prince zingle of mo, princess pattycake, princess truella of mo, purple dragon, queen of mo, storks, the magical monarch of mo, the royal explorers of oz, the strange adventures of the king's head, timtom, wizard of mo | 1 Comment

If I Only Had a Game

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve long thought Oz had a lot of potential for video games, but it hasn’t had much success in that respect. One game I knew existed but hadn’t played or anything was the 1993 The Wizard of Oz for Super … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Characters, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Video Games | Tagged alexander volkov, angry video game nerd, cats, cowardly lion, crows, dogs, dorothy gale, emerald city, emerald city confidential, glinda, grampa in oz, magic land, mice, munchkins, queen of the field-mice, scarecrow, super nintendo entertainment system, the wizard of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, topiary, toto, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, yellow brick road | 1 Comment

Category Archives: Jared Davis

Snow Time Like the Past

Tik-Tok on the Clock But the OzCon Don’t Stop

This Could Be Oz, But You Playin’

The Multiversal Trendsetter

Been a Long Time Since I Rinkitinked

The Mistress of Misdirection

Someone in Oz

There’s No Convention Like Home

You Want Some Mo?

If I Only Had a Game

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