MY DEFINITION OF SUCCESS IN MAGIC: Making a living performing magic. MY DEFINITION OF FAILURE IN MAGIC: Pirating and exposing magic for money and likes.
Still making adjustments, a reader weighs in about marketed tricks
Peter Godfrey was born on this day in 1899
On this day in 1946, magic dealer Joe Karson filed a U.S. patent for an “Illusion Apparatus,” marketed under the name of Zombie, the floating ball.
In the October 1937 Linking Ring, William H. Wilson (Will de Seive) advertised his trick, Clippo.
The distinguished historian and author discusses his unique approach to magic's past in The Magic Book Podcast.
The Milbourne Christopher Awards celebrate excellence, originality, and leadership in the magical arts.
Piqued by our questions, Mac King discusses meeting someone with magic, and dinner with Max
A voice of experience; Gresham corrected; the Die Box celebrated
Exactly 70 years ago, in 1955, the annual Abbott’s Get Together was in full force. Chami Kkan, a mystic from Venezuela, was nailed to a cross with three long spikes.
In 1926, illusionist Howard Thurston was granted a United States Patent for a “Nostril Expander,” which was marketed as Thurston’s Perfect Breather.
In 1961, Chicago magician De Yip Loo was the first guest act on the premiere of Bozo’s Circus, on WGN television