Vol. 57, no. 2 (Autumn 2013)
| Editor-in-Chief | Craig Noble |
| Production Editor | Marcus Mébès |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Review Editor | Atticus Gannaway |
| Contributing Editors |
Jane Albright, Angelica Carpenter, Jared Davis |
Front cover art by Laura Diehl (Scraps, Ojo, and Bungle)
Back cover art by Nei Ruffino (The Legend of Oz: The Wicked West)
Autumn 2013 Selected Contents
This is a guide to the articles and reviews from the issue that will most benefit researchers, scholars, and collectors. The printed issue includes additional content such as news, editorial letters, and other commentary-based departments.
Patching Together History: A Centennial Appreciation of Scraps, the Patchwork Girl of Oz
Marcus Mébès looks at L. Frank Baum’s return to Oz by means of The Patchwork Girl of Oz, and he pays tribute to the eponymous character by examining her depiction in pastiches, films, and comics. Includes a variety of Scraps illustrations by different artists.
A Calico Chaos: L. Frank Baum Parades a Fantastical Circus in The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Anita Schmaltz considers the early 20th century popular culture force of the circus—its menageries, performers, and sideshows—and how they may have inspired both characters and incidents in The Patchwork Girl of Oz.
Piecing Together the Patchwork Girl Art: A Conjectural Study
J. L. Bell recounts the conflict between publisher and author over the art in The Patchwork Girl of Oz and how it limited the time available for Reilly & Britton to ask John R. Neill for new pictures. Their reticence, along with their plans for layout, forced multiple John R. Neill illustrations to be re-used, with slight alterations, within the printed book, and these are carefully examined.
Oz Under Scrutiny: The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Craig J. Noble looks at reviews of The Patchwork Girl of Oz contemporary to its original publication.
Easin’ on Down the Yellow Brich Road: A Black Man’s Journey to Oz
Andre De Shields, the actor and dancer who created the role of “The Wiz” on stage, writes his own extensive memoir piece, recalling his life as a young man during the turbulent 1960s, the original Broadway production of The Wiz, and his visit to the Oz-Stravaganza festival in Chittenango, New York. .
Four Common Repairs for Cloth-Bound Books
Antiquarian book repair expert Sophia Siobhan Wolohan Bogle details how to strengthen inner hinges, re-attach color plates, clean cloth covers, and repair dust jackets.
Bibliographia Oziana: A New Bibliographic Description of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Fifty years after its original examination in the Christmas 1963 issue, Michael O. Riley outlines a new and and extremely thorough biographical dissection of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, including individual examinations of the variant text sheets, color plates, and bindings, as well as the combinations in which they are found. A follow-up article, teaching readers how to distinguish between the first and second states of the text, would be published in the Winter 2015 issue.
The Oz Illustrator
A recurring feature in which a celebrity or fan artist demonstrates how to draw one Oz character. Here, Eric Shanower draws Scraps, the Patchwork Girl.
In Memoriam
Evan McCord (Munchkin convention regular).
Reviews
Oz The Great and Powerful (feature film on Blu-ray/DVD; reviewer Ryan Jay)
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young (graphic novel; reviewer Ken Cope)
The Road to Oz by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young (graphic novel; reviewer Ken Cope)
The Wizard of MGM: Memoirs of A. Arnold Gillespie edited by Philip J. Riley and Robert A. Welch (non-fiction; reviewer Mark Griffin)
The Complete, Incomplete Adventures of Donald Gardner and the Silver Shoes Two Novels, Revised Edition by Paul Miles Schneider (fiction; reviewer Mari Ness)