#the scarecrow of oz

[poppies-from-oz]

LAND OF OZ MASTERPOST

Now seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that all of the original fifteen Oz books are public domain and up for free online.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Ozma of Oz

Dorothy & The Wizard in Oz

The Road to Oz

The Emerald City of Oz

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

Tik-Tok of Oz

The Scarecrow of Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

The Lost Princess of Oz

The Tin Woodman of Oz

The Magic of Oz

Glinda of Oz

Happy reading! 

[eramdelas]

i was bored :0

[idkwhattocallmyselfwh]

[witchesoz]

The Wicked Witches of the West (6)

Now that the green elephant is out of the room, let us talk back about the original Wicked Witch of the West, before MGM changed our perception of her forever. Because not all of the Witches of the West are green, far from it!

And when you look at the earliest adaptations of the Wicked Witch, you will notice one recurring trend... The one of fusing the Witch of the West with Mombi, the evil sorceress from "The Marvelous Land of Oz", later retconned into being the former Wicked Witch of the North.

This is first the case in the 1910 silent movie "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", one of the earliest movie adaptations of Baum's book - while the antagonist of the movie is clearly the Wicked Witch of the West, her name in the story is... Momba. One letter away from Mombi. It is especially interesting to note that Baum was directly involved in the making of this movie, and so the name was not chosen randomly... Or it might have given Baum's famous tendency of not really giving a crap about continuity and preferring a booming, anarchic creativity over any strict and rigorous world-building. He likely named the antagonist "Momba" as a simple nod to his more famous Mombi character.

A later Oz adaptation with another direct input and participation by Baum enlightens us on the matter: 1914 "His Majesty, The Scarecrow of Oz", a movie where the antagonist is clearly designed after Denslow's illustrations of the Wicked Witch of the West, and yet is called "Old Mombi"... It is obvious that Baum wanted, to touch the movie-audience, a mix of the main witches of his two earlier works, creating this Mombi-Momba hybrid serving as a stock villain in early Oz movies.

Things get even more complicated when you look at the novel "The Scarecrow of Oz", that Baum wrote as an expansion of the short film, or rather as an inclusion of the story of "His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz" into the book-canon of his literary series. And in there a witch antagonist does appear, with an appearance described as being quite similar to the Wicked Witch of the West... but she is not her, nor is she Mombi, as she rather becomes a new witch, "Old Blinkie". After all, the Wicked Witch of the West was supposed to be dead in the book-continuity... even though it became a big rule later on that nobody could die in Oz... as I said, Baum literaly did not care for continuity beyond the first two books and even less so after his sixth one.

Beyond early Oz media, the confusion doesn't seem to have been maintained, as Mombi and the Wicked Witch became very distinctive character... Except for this one Polish animated show, a children series of 1988 called W krainie czarnoksiężnika Oza, and that adapts both "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and "The Marvelous Land of Oz" (plus pieces of other Oz books if I saw well?). I unfortunately don't know Polish, but the episodes are fully on Youtube, and from what I got the Wicked Witch of the East and West in Baum's novels were fused here as one same character, The Wicked Witch of the East, main antagonist of the "Wizard of Oz" arc, while Mombi from the "Land of Oz" arc was renamed the Wicked Witch of the West? And yet some of the scenes of Mombi in the Marvelous Land of Oz were given to the Polish Witch of the East which is in turn Baum's Witch of the West? It's a bit confusing X)

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

WELCOMES YOU TO THE LAND OF OZ WITH THE HAPPIEST SMILE YOU'VE EVER SEEN.

PIC(S) INFO: Resolution at 1024x1462 (2x) -- Spotlight on the Scarecrow of Oz, ink and watercolors on board, original and a close-up version, from the American children's literature classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) by L. Frank Baum. Artwork by William Stout.

"When I was a boy I was tremendously interested in scarecrows. They always seemed to my childish imagination as just about to wave their arms, straighten up and stalk across the field on their long legs. I lived on a farm, you know. It was natural then that my first character in this animated life series was the scarecrow, on whom I have taken revenge for all the mystic feeling he once inspired."

-- LYMAN FRANK BAUM, a.k.a., L. Frank Baum (1856–1919), American author and creator of the "Land of Oz" books

Source: www.americanlegacyfinearts.com/artwork/scarecrow-of-oz.

[scribledon]

MORE SCARECROW CAUSE I HAVE NO SELF CONTROL

[totalchaosgremlin]

munchkin ashen real NOT FAKE

[mytemezcal]

I’m thinking about making an Oz Discord server what do you guys think

[booklung]

[konpyuuuta]

ART!!!! very quick doodles of Scarecrow and Jack Pumpkinhead :) I'll make more art very, very soon !!! (click read more or Whatever it's called for seperate Scarecrow and Pumpkinhead. with no notes) do not repost on other websites or use for NFTs or AI art

[dappercritter]

Hey

I don't know what you're cooking here

But I like it

Friends of Dorothy : )

[poppies-from-oz]

I love the way John R Neill draws The Wizard bc it’s pretty clear he doesn’t buy his whole “redemption” at all and pretty much always draws him in shifty evil bastard mode.

[eramdelas]

[ichiwashername-o]

In honor of our very first sneak peek of the movie Wicked, my nostalgia kicked into high gear and I'm honoring one of my earliest fandom crazes with a silly little comic I'm calling "Fiyero Doesn't Get Enough Recognition For All The Shit He's Been Through."

Enjoy Fiyero having the weirdest 72 hours of his life.

Wicked Master Post Here

Sequel comic here.

And here he meets the Lion.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"...HIS ROTTING BODY HELD TOGETHER WITH TWINE, STICKS, STRAW, AND PRAYERS..."

PIC(S) INFO: Part 2 of 2 -- Spotlight on the complete set of promo shots of the gnarled and malformed Scarecrow 6" action figure, from McFarlane's Monsters -- Series 2: "The Twisted Land of Oz," released by McFarlane Toys in September 2003.

CHARACTER OVERVIEW: "The Scarecrow, the gentleman coming to the Emerald City in search of a brain, became what he had been in a previous existence outside Oz: an Inquisitor who visited torture upon hapless victims for his government. The Scarecrow’s specialty was a barbaric form of craniectomy while the “patient” was still conscious, before finishing them with his rusty scythe, but it’s useless now, his rotting body held together with twine, sticks, straw and prayers -- doesn’t have the strength to wield it. In suitably grim irony, the contents of his skull are being liquefied by an ancient lobotomy contraption while a pair of undead crows picks at his remaining flesh."

-- "THE TWISTED LAND OF OZ, "Chapter 9: Destiny Awaits," by McFarlane Toys, c. fall 2003

Sources: https://mcfarlane.com/toys/scarecrow & Pinterest (2x).