The Continuing Comics of Oz

Oz and comics have a rather long history together. L. Frank Baum did his own comic page, Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz , back when he'd only written two Oz books. It wasn't what we'd recognize as a comic today, though, being essentially just a newspaper page with an illustrated short story. W.W. Denslow had his own comic starring the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, with a sort of ...

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Changing attitudes toward tie-in fiction

I've been writing professionally for nine years now, and, with the exception of a few short stories and my upcoming Star Wars novel, I've written almost everything in the shared, tie-in setting of the Forgotten Realms. Hence, I've been sensitive during these nine years to the claim -- the conventional wisdom, really -- that tie-in fiction sucks, or at least isn't as good as non-tie-in fiction. If...

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The Continuing Comics of Oz

Changing attitudes toward tie-in fiction