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Attention all Oz enthusiasts and graphic novel addicts...there is a brand new branch of the Yellow Brick Road available to explore.
Canton, Ohio author Craig R. May has created a unique treatment of the Oz fable as a 1940s film noir. All of the traditional characters are present, although in considerably altered format. For instance, Dorothy is now Dot O'Connor, a down-on-her-
May, who has been a lifelong fan of the Oz tale, chose to render this retelling as a stop-motion animation rather than a comic book composed of drawings. He hand-crafted each character in Sculpy 3, a polymer resin clay, as well as the miniature sets in which the story is played out.
"It's a bit like what Tim Burton does with his stop-motion animated films," said May. "The story is darker than the novel by L. Frank Baum, or the movie that everyone knows. DOT'S JOURNEY is more of a Hitchcockian journey through the land of Oz, but the story is pretty much intact."
DOT'S JOURNEY is available online at lulu.com and amazon.com.
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