Wizard of Oz
We’re off to see the Wizard this Public DoMay as we spotlight the Wizard of Oz! Since its publication in 1900, the original story by L. Frank Baum has sprawled into a multimedia collection of works.
The Oz fandom is built upon Baum’s literature, while the 1939 movie adaptation has had more mainstream influence. Early fandom activities were predominantly academic.
When parsing the large body of Ozian fiction, there’s some gray area regarding what counts as fanfic and what doesn’t. Many of these works have been commercially published thanks to canon’s place in the public domain. Still, Ozian fic archives do exist, and the network of small-scale printing presses bears resemblance to zine fandom.
Are you a fan of the Wizard of Oz? Come tell us about it on Fanlore!
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