and The Wizard of Id

* 1984: Brant Parker, The Wizard of Id

The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart.

( The title is a play on The Wizard of Oz, combined with the Freudian psychological term Id, which represents the instinctive and primal part of the human psyche.

The Wizard of Id was first syndicated on November 9, 1964, drawn by Parker and co-written by Parker and Hart.

The Wizard of Id deals with the goings-on of the rundown and oppressed mythical kingdom of Id.

The Wizard of Id follows a gag-a-day format, plus a color Sunday page.

For example, the old style of the King's head was more rectangular, had a crown with identifiable card suits on it ( club, diamond, heart ), his mustache and beard always hid his mouth, and his beard frequently extended to a curved point when the King was shown in profile ( see The Wondrous Wizard of Id, 1970, Fawcett Publications ).

A Wizard of Id strip featuring the King of Id.

There are many other generic incidental characters that Parker often included in The Wizard of Id.

In 1969, Jim Henson and Don Sahlin produced a test pilot for the Wizard of Id.

* The Wondrous Wizard of Id ( 1970 )

: A Wizard of Id Collection ( 1988 ) ISBN 0-8362-1804-3

: A Wizard of Id Collection ( 1989 ) ISBN 0-8362-1838-8

: A Wizard of Id Collection ( 1990 ) ISBN 0-8362-1817-5

* The Best of The Wizard of Id: 40 Years of Mirth, Merriment and Mayhem ( 2009 ) Titan Books, ISBN 1-84856-363-9

* The Wizard of Id Dailies: 1971 Titan Books, ISBN 978-1-84856-683-5

* In Italy, The Wizard of Id is known as Mago Wiz ( Wiz The Sorcerer ) and has been published with great success in the comics magazines Il Mago and Linus, and in the science fiction magazine Urania, plus several hardcover editions also by Mondadori.

* The Wizard of Id – official site from Creators Syndicate

* Henson Wizard of Id test pilot

es: The Wizard of Id

* The comic strip The Wizard of Id by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker features an attorney called " Larsen E. Pettifogger ", an obvious parody of Fields, named in allusion to Fields's character Larson E. Whipsnade from You Can't Cheat an Honest Man.

It has models with either 22 or 24 frets that are housed in slightly larger necks, known as the Wizard III, compared to the thinner Wizard necks that the RG has.

It has been said ( citation: following Blanche's request, " tell me you married me for my bod and not for my money ", the Wizard puts on a lightning conductor hat, grounds it thoroughly, and swears, " may lightning strike me dead ... it was not for your money ( strip of 4 / 30 / 1976, also published in " My Kingdom For A Horsie!

The Wizard of New Zealand, QSM ( born Ian Brackenbury Channell ; 4 December 1932 ) is an English-born New Zealand educator, comedian, magician and politician, who has become something of a national icon of New Zealand.

The Wizard has only been able to live out his radically new conceptual life style because of the trust and financial support of his longtime love, Alice Flett.

After the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake the Wizard has planned to retire and leave Christchurch for good saying the town he loved had gone and that it was the end of an era.

Wizard Books has since released several new titles including Blood of the Zombies by Ian Livingstone to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary in 2012.

The Wizard of Oz has been adapted to other media numerous times, most famously in the MGM's 1939 film starring Judy Garland.

His real name has been revealed in The Wizard to be Daniel Deathshead Morgan.

The Wizard of Oz parallels continue inside, where the Wizard is revealed to be Marten Broadcloak, also known as Randall Flagg, who flees when Roland attempts to kill him with Jake's Ruger and narrowly misses ( Flagg has bewitched Roland's own guns, saying, " Only misfires against me, Roland, old fellow ").

One has been pursuing the Wizard because of this.

He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, whose tombstone carried his real name on the front, while noting his appearance as the Wizard on the back, and has 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for motion pictures at 1708 Vine Street and for radio at 6700 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Although the track " No Hard Feelings " recently broke into the Modern Rock Top 50, their second single " Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss " ( which is featured in a Blaupunkt, a BGL Grand Wizard ad ) has started radio circulation with a music video airing limitedly on a few music channels.

He has also used Guild, Takamine and Gibson J-200 acoustic models, with the J-200 providing his signature recorded acoustic sound in such songs as " Pinball Wizard ".

" The Rule of Names " has some plot links to A Wizard of Earthsea, while " Darkrose and Diamond " is an entirely independent story.

Each novel in the series has received a literary award, including the 1969 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction & the 1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for A Wizard of Earthsea, the 1972 Newbery Honor for The Tombs of Atuan, the 1973 National Book Award for Children's Books for The Farthest Shore, the 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novel for Tehanu, and the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for The Other Wind.

Usagi has appeared in stories published by Cartoon Books, Oni Press, Sky Dog Press, Wizard Press, and most recently in the benefit book Drawing the Line, the proceeds of which went to Princess Margaret Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children, both in Toronto, for cancer research.

Nearly a week after the show debuted, Leo Guild ( who has created numerous radio and television shows, books, and newspaper columns ) filed a $ 2 million lawsuit against NBC for stealing his Wizard title, which had been used as a newspaper column during the late 1940s.

She has had even more musical roles in Annie Get Your Gun, Grease, The Wizard of Oz, Cats and Nils Karlsson Pyssling.

It has to be said, though, that he's only known as " The Hobgoblin " in the English translation — in the Swedish edition of the book, The Hobgoblin is simply referred to as " Trollkarlen " (" The Wizard ") and his species is not mentioned.