Vol. 63, no. 2 (Autumn 2019)
| Editor-in-Chief | Sarah K. Crotzer |
| Production Editor | Sarah K. Crotzer (uncredited) |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Reviews Editor | Atticus Gannaway |
| Bugle Bulletin Editor | Jared Davis |
| Oz Gazette Editor | Nick Campbell |
All cover art by Mark Manley
Autumn 2019 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.
An Oz Book (Fragment)
A special republication of a fragment of an Oz story, originally published in the Bugle in 1965, which was presented by the Baum family to then-Club secretary Fred M. Meyer. The fragment is presented with additional commentary on its provenance, a new illustration by Mark Manley, and preceded by an archival introduction from Meyer speculating, “What might L. Frank Baum have written next?”
Living Inside the Oz Legacy
Gita Dorothy Morena, the great-granddaughter of L. Frank Baum, looks back on her family’s long association with Oz and its cultural importance, placing special attention on her own experiences and those of her mother, Ozma Baum Mantele.
Drawn to Oz
Mark Manley describes the process by which he drew this issue’s special wraparound cover. His sketches and preliminary drawings appear on the inside covers.
The First Oz Fan Fiction
In 1909, two small boys had their original Oz story serialized in the Syracuse Post-Standard. It is presented here in full transcript with a small contextual introduction.
“Written Solely to Please Children”: Is Oz Still a Story for Kids?
Dina Schiff Massachi questions whether or not Oz has outgrown its original audience, taking in the influence of adaptations and modernizations including The Wiz and Lost in Oz.
“The Maker of Fairies is Dead”: America Responds to the Death of L. Frank Baum
Scott Cummings presents a selection of the tributes and memorials that appeared in American newspapers on the event of Baum’s death in May 1919.
Reviews
Judy (feature film; reviewer Garrett Kilgore)
The Wiz at the Murfreesboro Center for the Arts (theater; reviewer Sarah K. Crotzer)
Oz by Stéphane Levallois (art book; reviewer David Maxine)
Ray Bolger: More Than a Scarecrow by Holly Van Leuven (biography; reviewer Sarah K. Crotzer)
The Ruby Slippers of Oz: Thirty Years Later by Rhys Thomas (non-fiction; reviewer Bill Campbell)
Sea Sirens by Amy Chu and Janet K. Lee (graphic novel; reviewer Eric Shanower)
How the Wizard Came to Oz, Vol. 1 by Donald Abbott (graphic novel; reviewer Atticus Gannaway)
100th Anniversary Oz Collection by SeaWolf Press (budget reprints; reviewer Sarah K. Crotzer)
The Woman’s Suffrage Movement ed. Sally Roesch Wagner (non-fiction; reviewer Angelica Shirley Carpenter)
The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert (novel; reviewer Dee Michel)