The top scene is, naturally, supposed to mirror the Scarecrow's imagined fate of Dorothy and Toto on the previous page. Fans of the books may recognize the American friends from the later stories despite my creative reinterpretations.

From left to right: Cap'n Bill, Button-Bright, Trot, Billina the chicken, Toto & Dorothy of course, Eureka the kitten, Zeb Hugson, and the Shaggy Man.

Button-Bright's one of the more interesting characters in the Baum's Oz despite being a non-magical kid from Philadelphia. I gave him the outfit he wears in the later books rather than his iconic sailor suit from Road to Oz.

Baum's first published book was a nonfiction book on raising Hamburg chickens, so I thought it'd be fun to model Billina on a gold penciled Hamburg as an homage.

I can't very well make pre-fairyland Eureka pink, but I gave her pink attributes.

I gave the Shaggy Man a fur coat here because it conveys shagginess really well. If I ever do a comic with him in it, I may opt for something else, but it works for a single panel fantasy scene.