The story is the same, and yet it's entirely different. In this fascinating reinterpretation of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, artist Graham Rawle has stripped the epic story about Dorothy's journey to Oz of all remnants of Hollywood iconography. Gone are the Judy Garland braids, the Technicolor ruby slippers, the ethereal Glinda the Good Witch. In their place, Rawle has fashioned graphic-novelesque characters and scenery that are at once relentlessly modern and also devoutly loyal to Baum's original text: The Wicked Witch of the West 'has but one good eye' and it is 'as powerful as a telescope,' while Emerald City only appears to be green because the inhabitants are made to wear tinted glasses.

Infused with color, images, and montages that bring the classic story alive all over again, this is an Oz that is both surreal and surprising – just as it should be.

Graham Rawle is a writer and collage artist whose visual work incorporates illustration, design, photography, and installation. His popular series, "Lost Consonants" and "Vowel Movements," appeared in London's Guardian Weekend for many years. Among his published books are The Wonder Book of Fun, Lying Doggo, Diary of an Amateur Photographer, and Woman's World.