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The Ozmapolitan is the newspaper of record in the Emerald City.

L. Frank Baum's publisher Reilly & Britton coined the term "Ozmapolitan" in 1904, for promotional materials generated in connection with Baum's second Oz book, The Marvelous Land of Oz. The firm created advertising in the form of a newspaper of Oz called The Ozmapolitan, with another issue in 1905 to promote The Woggle-Bug Book. It is possible though not certain that Baum wrote some of the early Ozmapolitan press releases. The company used the same tactic in 1926, 1927, and 1928 to promote some of the books of Ruth Plumly Thompson, and again in 1963, 1965, and 1970 for other projects, including the McGraws' Merry Go Round in Oz, illustrated by Dick Martin.

The International Wizard of Oz Club also used The Ozmapolitan as the name of a periodical in 1986, edited and illustrated by Dick Martin, to promote his novel The Ozmapolitan of Oz. Hungry Tiger Press revived the newsletter in 1995, 1998, and 2000 to promote its Oz-story Magazine. Since 2010, Blair Frodelius has maintained a blog called "The Daily Ozmapolitan: News from Glinda's Great Book of Records."[1][2][3]

Authorship[4][5]

Other newspapers

The Ozmapolitan is not the only newspaper mentioned in the Oz books. The Gnome Man's Daily is published in the Nome Kingdom (see The Gnome King of Oz), and The Gillikin Times is mentioned in The Rundelstone of Oz.

References

  1. ↑ Bill Campbell, "The Ozmapolitan," The Oz Enthusiast, December 12, 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  2. ↑ David Maxine, "The Newspaper of The Land of Oz," Hungry Tiger Press. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  3. ↑ Jane Albright, "Blair Frodelius," The Oz Club, January 15, 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  4. ↑ "The Ozmapolitan," The Baum Bugle, 21:3 (Winter 1976), p. 20.
  5. ↑ David Maxine, "The Newspaper of The Land of Oz," Hungry Tiger Press. Retrieved 25 January 2024.