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 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 Wizard of Id has enjoyed a successful life to date.

* 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.

The play was not officially endorsed by the Magliozzis, but they participated in the production, lending their voices to a central puppet character named " The Wizard of Cahs ".

Starting in the early 1980s, Mills, using the name " The Wizard ", was a recurring guest DJ on " The Electrifying Mojo " radio show on WJLB.

Lyman Frank Baum ( May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919 ) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Baum and Tietjens had worked on a musical of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1901 and based closely upon the book, but it was rejected.

The Wicked Witch of the West was eliminated entirely in the script, and the plot became about how the four friends, being allied with the usurping Wizard, were hunted as traitors to Pastoria II, the rightful King of Oz.

Although numerous political references to the " Wizard " appeared early in the 20th century, it was in a scholarly article by Henry Littlefield, an upstate New York high school history teacher, published in 1964 that there appeared the first full-fledged interpretation of the novel as an extended political allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.

The character was ranked as the 8th Greatest Villain by Wizard on its 100 Greatest Villains of All Time list.

While " The Wizard of Oz " nickname was an allusion to the 1939 motion picture of the same name, Smith also came to be known as simply " The Wizard " during his playing career, as Smith's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque would later attest.

This was fine for pre-1953 films such as The Wizard of Oz or Casablanca.

Children's author and playwright L. Frank Baum referred to a seat in this passage of his novel Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ; “ At once a little girl rose from her seat and walked to the door of the car, carrying a wicker suit-case in one hand and a round bird-cage covered up with newspapers in the other, while a parasol was tucked under her arm .”

Dubbed " The Wizard of Menlo Park " ( now Edison, New Jersey ) by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

It was first released on videotape and CED in the 1980s by Wizard Video and Vestron Video.

For instance, in 1967 there was a six-week story with the Wizard taking over the throne.

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!

It was developed from Metagaming's Melee and Wizard MicroGames, also designed by Steve Jackson, which provided the basic combat and magic rules.

Perhaps the most novel feature was the use of a point-based skill system, an extension and generalization of the magic system inherited from Wizard.

The EP was engineered by Davy Shannon at Wizard Sound Studios, Belfast – and was released on Belfast's Good Vibrations record label.

The Vice Chancellor offered to do all he could and in 1969 Channell, who wanted to stay on campus and continue his social experiments, was able to persuade the VC to appoint him official University Wizard with a small honorarium paid jointly by the University Administration and the Student Union.

In 1982 the New Zealand Art Gallery Directors Association issued a statement that in their opinion the Wizard was an authentic living work of art and the City Council appointed him Wizard of Christchurch.