I doubt that many early-twentieth-century children's books describe their characters as having freakishly large breasts, and the Oz books are no exception. I've seen other naked pictures of Oz characters, though, including one of Ozma as a dominatrix, and another of Jellia Jamb (Ozma's maid-in-waiting) doing a striptease. They're from a small handful of people, since there aren't that many Oz book fans anyway, and the number of them who want to use the characters for their own perverted ends are even more slim. I don't know who the guy is who did the picture I linked to, but I looked at the website where it was housed, and it looks like he does a lot of naked-chick comic type stuff. While I find the "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if these fictional characters had sex and posed in the nude?" kind of mentality to be weird anyway, I think it's especially crazy for the Oz books, since they WERE written for children and all.
As far as Ozma goes, John R. Neill did eventually start drawing her looking a little more physically mature, probably largely due to the fact that there were some characters in the Ruth Plumly Thompson books who wanted to marry her. So it's not QUITE as disturbing to sexualize her as it is with, say, Dorothy, who seems to be about eleven years old throughout the series. But, you know, it's still pretty crazy.
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Date: 2005-03-20 07:33 pm (UTC)As far as Ozma goes, John R. Neill did eventually start drawing her looking a little more physically mature, probably largely due to the fact that there were some characters in the Ruth Plumly Thompson books who wanted to marry her. So it's not QUITE as disturbing to sexualize her as it is with, say, Dorothy, who seems to be about eleven years old throughout the series. But, you know, it's still pretty crazy.