Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz is not a book in itself but is related to the Oz series of books which is why it is headed under Books and included here.
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About Queer Visitors From The Marvelous Land Of Oz
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz was a newspaper comic strip written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Walt McDougall, a political cartoonist for the Philadelphia North American. Queer Visitors appeared in the North American, the Chicago Record-Herald and other newspapers from the 28th of August 1904 to the 26th of February 1905. The series chronicles the misadventures of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Sawhorse, as the Gump flies them to various cities in the United States. The comic strip in turn produced its own derivation, The Woggle-Bug Book (1905).
Queer Visitors was formatted as a series of prose stories, surrounded by large illustrations, therefore not a comic strip in the modern sense.
Development
The project was designed to promote The Marvelous Land of Oz. Coincidentally, it ran at the same time as a comic strip featuring Oz characters visiting America, that was written and drawn by W. W. Denslow. Denslow drew the illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and shared in its copyright. After Baum and Denslow had a falling out, Denslow exercised his copyright through his strip, called Denslow’s Scarecrow and Tin-Man, which ran in relatively few newspapers from December 1904 to March 1905. It was an artistic and commercial failure.
Re-Publication
How the Wogglebug got a Thanksgiving dinner from Queer Visitors from The Marvelous Land of Oz, published November 20th, 1904.
The Visitors from Oz, published by Reilly and Lee in 1960, includes about half of Baum’s Visitors stories rewritten and illustrated by Dick Martin.
The 27 Queer Visitors stories have been republished in book form as The Third Book of Oz (1989) from Buckethead Enterprises, which was censored. The Buckethead Edition was a reprint under a new cover of an earlier edition, and Dulabone was not aware at the time that it was censored. The Third Book of Oz also includes another early promotion project, The Woggle-Bug Book (written by Baum and illustrated by Ike Morgan); the volume is illustrated by Eric Shanower. Hungry Tiger Press corrected the censoring from the Buckethead edition but used The Visitors from Oz as the title, like the 1960 adaptation.
In June, 2009, Sunday Press Books released a collected edition of the newspaper strips in their original format and colouring. The book also included W. W. Denslow’s competing strip Denslow’s Scarecrow And Tin-Man as well as other comic strips by Walt McDougall, W. W. Denslow, and John R. Neill.
A caricature of L. Frank Baum And Walt McDougall, from 1904, from a cartoon announcing the comic strip Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz.
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Blog Posts
Books: The Oz Series By L. Frank Baum.
Books: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: The Marvelous Land Of Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: Ozma Of Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: The Road To Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: The Emerald City Of Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: The Patchwork Girl Of Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: Tik-Tok Of Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: The Scarecrow Of Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: Rinkitink In Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: The Lost Princess Of Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: The Tin Woodman Of Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: The Magic Of Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: Glinda Of Oz By L. Frank Baum.
Books: The Woggle-Bug Book By L. Frank Baum.
Notes And Links
The 1900 first edition front cover image shown at the top of this page is copyright of W. W. Denslow.
The caricature of L. Frank Baum And Walt McDougall, from 1904 image is copyright unknown.
All the above images are in the Public Domain via Wikipedia.
Project Gutenberg – Project Gutenberg is an online library of free e-books and was the first provider of free electronic books. Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, invented e-books in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of them and related content today.
The Wonderful Wiki of Oz – Official website. A wonderful and welcoming encyclopedia of all things Oz that anyone can edit or contribute Oz-related information and Oz facts to enjoy.
The Oz Archive on Facebook – Archiving and celebrating the legacy of Oz.
The Oz Archive on Twitter – Archiving and celebrating the legacy of Oz.
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The Oz Archive on TikTok – Archiving and celebrating the legacy of Oz.