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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-11 21:36:00

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creator: bill willingham, creator: mark buckingham, publisher: vertigo, title: fables

Fables 90
Ozma takes the stage...

The witches and warlocks of the 13th floor discuss what to do in their leader Frau Totenkinder's absence.

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	rbenchley 2009-11-12 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	From the Wikipedia entry on Ozma: "In her initial appearance, she was described as a cherubic little girl with red-gold hair; however, all subsequent illustrations of the Princess show her as dark-haired, though this is never noted in the text." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cygna_hime 2009-11-12 04:22 pm UTC (link)
	That's not red-gold either. And every single image of her I've ever seen, including of her when she was a boy, have dark hair. Blond Ozma just seems wrong (particularly since they're going with the poppies in her hair, which is from the same dark-haired pictures). (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jaybee3
2009-11-12 06:54 pm UTC (link)

I know of only 2 versions of a blonde Ozma. One is in the 1980s Disney "Return to Oz" movie where little Ozma is blonde (in order to differentiate her from Dorothy IMO) and the other is in the original illustrations of the first time Ozma appears (after she changes from Tip) in "The Marvelous Land of Oz". After that O'Neil, the primary Oz illustrator, started to draw her as a brunette (with the flowers on the side of her ears and her "OZ" tiara) and visibly a few years older than Dorothy (especially after she and Dorothy became best pals).

Following "The Wizard of Oz" - the 1st book - in which Dorothy was a brunette (like Judy Garland), Dorothy has always been depicted as a blonde and that continues in all non-movie versions of the stories still today.

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	cygna_hime 2009-11-12 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't even see her blonde in the pictures in Marvelous Land of Oz, that I recall. (And Tip was definitely dark in all the pictures, so Ozma being fair doesn't even make sense.) And can I just take the time to say that I love O'Neil's pictures so very very much? They are gorgeous. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	freddylloyd 2009-11-13 05:40 pm UTC (link)
	You're correct about the very first illustrations of Ozma in Marvelous Land of Oz showing her as blonde, more or less as Baum described her. The artist on that book and most of its sequels was named John R. Neill. And you're correct that Neill always depicted Dorothy as blonde. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arbre_rieur 2009-11-12 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	It's been hundreds of years; she's had plenty of time to change hair colors. Plus, this is closer to the one canonical in-text reference to her hair color that exists, in LAND OF OZ. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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