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He’s Not Just a Magician, He’s Evil

Evil Magician Comic? The Digital Webring ? Digital Webbing Presents (DWP) will soon release issue number 19 featuring magicians who have crossed the line from flawless parlor and close-up magic to difficult to stop assassins. 

 

Read On . . .

 

The project in the current DWP is sort of a reprise for the theme and the characters.   As many magicians recall, these true “Bad Boys of Magic” were first introduced in the independently produced Sleight of Hand: Old Tricks, New Dogs.  The initial comic was a collaborative effort in which folks in the Internet community were asked to submit their stories, drawings and character development for inclusion in the comic. 

 

The result can be found in the published volume at CafePress here. 

 

 

Joe Libby to Predict Presidential Election

Joe Libby Uses Psychic Talents on Radio. When magician and mind reader Joe Libby prepared his prediction, he knew that if he was wrong, that mistake would be broadcast live into thousands of homes all over the San Antonio area. Happily, Libby was successful in predicting the outcome of an imaginary dice game played by Mary Denman, the host of KLUP’s radio show, “Prime Plus.”

After Denman “rolled” a six and a three with the imaginary dice, Libby asked her to verify that nothing had been prearranged. He then pulled out, and turned on, a small memo recorder. Holding it up to his microphone, he asked the radio audience to listen carefully as he pressed the “Play” button. “Good morning, Mary,” said Libby’s prerecorded voice. “I predict the total shown on your invisible dice will be nine. I repeat, nine. Good guess, huh?”

He plans to predict the outcome of the US Presidential election this November. “It’s going to be a tight race,” he says. “I think it would be fascinating to reveal a successful prediction on national television the…

He’s Not Just a Magician, He’s Evil

Evil Magician Comic? The Digital Webring ? Digital Webbing Presents (DWP) will soon release issue number 19 featuring magicians who have crossed the line from flawless parlor and close-up magic to difficult to stop assassins. 

 

Read On . . .

 

The project in the current DWP is sort of a reprise for the theme and the characters.   As many magicians recall, these true “Bad Boys of Magic” were first introduced in the independently produced Sleight of Hand: Old Tricks, New Dogs.  The initial comic was a collaborative effort in which folks in the Internet community were asked to submit their stories, drawings and character development for inclusion in the comic. 

 

The result can be found in the published volume at CafePress here. 

 

 

Joe Libby to Predict Presidential Election

Joe Libby Uses Psychic Talents on Radio. When magician and mind reader Joe Libby prepared his prediction, he knew that if he was wrong, that mistake would be broadcast live into thousands of homes all over the San Antonio area. Happily, Libby was successful in predicting the outcome of an imaginary dice game played by Mary Denman, the host of KLUP’s radio show, “Prime Plus.”

After Denman “rolled” a six and a three with the imaginary dice, Libby asked her to verify that nothing had been prearranged. He then pulled out, and turned on, a small memo recorder. Holding it up to his microphone, he asked the radio audience to listen carefully as he pressed the “Play” button. “Good morning, Mary,” said Libby’s prerecorded voice. “I predict the total shown on your invisible dice will be nine. I repeat, nine. Good guess, huh?”

He plans to predict the outcome of the US Presidential election this November. “It’s going to be a tight race,” he says. “I think it would be fascinating to reveal a successful prediction on national television the day after Election Day!” 

 

You can check out Mr. Libby’s website here.

 

 

Marc Salem

Marc Salem Returns to NYC from London. The New York Times Theater section had a nice piece about Marc Salem, the star of Mind Games, and his return to the Big Apple’s theater district. 

 

The article rightly heaps praise on Mr. Salem for his talent, his intelligence and humility. 

 

It really is a great article and relates how Mr. Salem uses his two Ph.D.’s to bring entertainment to his audiences.  He quotes Marshall McLuhan: “anyone who thinks there’s a difference between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either. Because all entertainment, whether you want it to or not, has a curriculum.”

 

Check out the article here.

 

 

Not Molly – Couldn’t Find Her Picture.

Molly Still Clowning at 60. The L.A. Times had an article about Sherron Newberg of Santa Ana, California and her drive to not only become a clown but to be one of the best.  She intends to continue “until [she] has a heart attack or something.”  

 

Ms. Newberg is a member of the IBM and performs magic while in clown make-up. 

 

Ms. Newberg finds the combination rewarding: “Once, she talked a man out of killing himself. “I blew him a couple of balloons, asked him to walk around for a couple of hours, look at all the happy people around him and then come back and tell me, ‘Molly, I want to live,”‘ she said. ‘And he did.’

 

“Another time, when she was face painting, she asked a little girl what she wanted. ‘She told me, “Molly, I want a flower,”‘ she said. ‘And her mother cried and told me that her daughter hadn’t spoken a word in five years because of some experiences she went through in her life.'”

 

You can read the full article here.

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