There is a mystery character though - a goose named Lonnie wearing a top hat! Anyone have any idea who Lonnie might be? The other oddity on the map border is that Tip appears in it twice!
It's kind of neat to see Walt Spouse's renditions of these Thompson characters. If the Wonderland of Oz strip had run for a decade or so, Spouse would have gotten to Thompson's Oz books. It's interesting that he only included characters from Pirates in Oz (then the most recent book). It would have been nice to see Kabumpo or Sir Hokus on the map, too.
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See, this is how ignorant I am…when you wrote Spouse, I thought she had snuck in a drawing of her husband. Guess I'll have to brush up on my Oztory…your blog is a great way to do that!
I'm pretty sure Thompson never married.
I'm curious about Lonnie, too. Was she perhaps from another project Spouse was illustrating at around the same time?
Lonnie reminds me of the similarly hatted companion of Father Goose in some of Denslow's illustrations for Baum.
http://www.oz-central.com/graphic/p_father_goose_02x.jpg
Maybe Lonnie is short for Lonesome Duck? I was wondering who that was myself.
So curious about Lonnie. Could it be a nickname for the Lonesome Duck? Of course if it was the Lonesome Duck it should have a crown instead of top hat...
Hmm, or maybe Souse got mixed up and included a character from something else he'd illustrated?
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