#the tin man

[yellowbrickramble]

Fans of the books might recall that the Tin Woodman lived in a standard castle in Marvelous Land of Oz and his tin castle wasn't introduced until Road to Oz. In this comic, it's been 4 years since the first adventure, so I figured he'd have the tin castle by now.

In the book, Billina says, "He built it because the old castle was too damp," but that doesn't make sense! Why would the Wicked Witch of the West's castle be damp? So, I decided it's the same castle. This gave me a fun design challenge of making a friendly-looking metal castle with the general shape of a spooky castle. I was inspired a bit by the eclectic nature of castle Duckula, though that probably isn't obvious.

My favorite depiction of the tin castle is probably Andy Hirsch's design in Kovac & Hirsch's Royal Historian of Oz, which incorporates corn cob towers, implying that he shares the castle with the Scarecrow.

The alderman joke is also from Road to Oz. Jack's line was spoken by Button-Bright and Logan's line was spoken by Dorothy Gale.

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[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! 

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Wizard of Oz lobby cards (1939)

[tabooiart]

NOT enough discussion about the 1950s-metropolis-post apocalyptic-rainbow explosion stage production of the wizard of oz. so i drew them. theyre friends :)

[down-in-dixie]

Wicked & The Wizard of Oz

[fashioninpaper]

More costume designs by Matthew LeFebvre for The Wiz (Terrific!)

[picspammer]

The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

[puppetdaily]

The Tin Man from The Woodsman, produced by Strangemen & Company

[zipzapzopzoop]

"You messed with the wrong family!"

Carl Robinson | Meet the Robinsons (2007)

[heyimanowl]

I came up with Cling and Clang's Halloween costumes ill be hearing no arguments

[scarecrow-enthusiast]

made this 200 years ago

[yellowbrickramble]

This chapter was called A Nickel-Plated Emperor in the book because in this chapter, the Tin Woodman revealed that after becoming ruler of Winkieland, he had "lately caused himself to be nickel-plated." So that he wouldn't rust anymore.

But the thing is that tin doesn't rust. Most stuff called "tin" in Baum's day were actually another metal coated with tin to deter rust. The Tin Woodman was most likely a tin-plated iron woodman who rusted because his tin coating wore thin from constant use. A nickel plating seems redundant to me, but not obviously redundant enough to work as a joke.

So, I, uh... so, I changed the chapter title.

Why he's standing in that position instead of in the middle of chopping down a tree, I'll explain in a later chapter.

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[poppies-from-oz]

So last night I found out from @the-blue-fairie that there was an Oz book written by John R Neill where the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman just straight-up go on a gay cruise together.

Neill wasn't playing around, these two are GAY gay.

(Images are sourced from Queer Oz by Tison Pugh, original illustrations sourced from Lucky Bucky in Oz.)

[haischaper]

Unfortunately didn’t finish this around TDOV but I still wanted to post it! So happy (very late) TDOV!

[tabooiart]

Be off and be on your way! Bring me the broomstick of the Witch of the West These are your orders, now obey!

^ bonus flats cuz theyre cute

[interstellar-elf]

The Oz books are insane.

The Tin Man was once a human named Nick Chopper who fell in love with a Munchkin woman but somehow pissed off the Wicked Witch of the East so much she cursed him. The curse was that whenever Nick would go into the forest to chop wood he would also chop off one of his limbs with his axe as well. Eventually he looses enough of himself (including his HEAD!) that he has to get a brand new tin body made by a tinsmith name Ku-Klip. No one can die in OZ so Nick lives within his new tin body as the Tin Woodsman. Adding onto this, there is also another tin man, the Tin Soldier who also fell in love with the same Munchkin woman that the Tin Man did and also got the same limb chopping off curse by the same Wicked Witch. Together they decide to find the Munchkin woman they had both been in love with only to discover that she's already married to both of them, somewhat. Well it turns out she's married to amalgamation of their discarded body parts, glued together by Ku-Klip into a being called Chopfyte. That's fucking horrifying.