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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Jim Gerrish has just released his latest Kid Show Magic offering "Torn and Restored Comic/ Coloring Book Pages" on my site. I've often seen him perform it on shows, but tonight I got to play around with it while proofreading his article and for someone used to doing the Torn and Restored Newspapers, it really is a treat to apply the Hugard-Osterlind newspaper principles to comic books! They are incredibly easy to tear, even for my arthritic old fingers, and the smaller size of a comic book or coloring book page makes the whole effect a snap.
The comic book tear is for older kids and teens, but the coloring book tear can be used even with pre-school and kindergarten aged kids. Jim also shows how to combine the coloring book tear with the follow up using his standard Coloring Book Trick where the colors appear and disappear. As a bonus, Jim offers a gift-wrap tear that I never saw him perform (mainly because he only performs it at kids' birthday parties where I can't tag along). It's a natural in that setting because he presents the birthday child with a wrapped present, and the kid does all the tearing of the gift wrap in his rush to get to the goodies. Jim just restores it and... I won't give away the ending.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
Futureal Inner circle 1695 Posts |
Do kids still read comic books these days?
Older teens and adults read more expensive collector-type comics, but the average kid on the street? The days of Daffy Duck, Mickey Mouse and Archie comics are long over, unfortunately. |
harris Inner circle Harris Deutsch 8812 Posts |
Graphic novels are very upper elementary, middle and some high school students.
I still like Marvel and D/C but many of the students I know love the Eastern Manga books. Harris currently reading Superman, The Bible and Buckley.
Harris Deutsch aka dr laugh
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
The principles apply to and can be used with other publications for children as well, such as Child Life, the boy scout magazine Boy's Life, Highlights for Children, Sports Illustrated Kids, FamilyFun, National Geographic Kids, Chiuldren's Digest, Children's Playmate, Cricket, Jack and Jill, Nickelodeon, Ranger Rick, and so on. And yes, Daffy Duck, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, (and my personal favorite) Scrooge McDuck, Archie and Jughead are still alive and well and selling strongly in many supermarkets around the world. You must not get out much, Futureal.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
alexa Veteran user NJ 393 Posts |
I read Archies all through elementary and middle school, and I just graduated from high school. And Spellbinder is right, magazines are definently not dead.
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themagiciansapprentice Inner circle Essex, UK 1381 Posts |
Good to see some creativity applied to an age-old trick.
Kids will love it as they can relate to them better than T&R newspapers. Unfortunately few kids today use newspapers except to catch paint. What other themes could T&R be applied to for kids? T&R Playstation manuals? cd covers?
Have wand will travel! Performing children's magic in the UK for Winter 2014 and Spring 2015.
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
The reason Jim felt he could finally give this one up is because he and his Wiz Kids have moved on to "the next big thing." It's not available this year, but perhaps next year when they are done using it in their shows...
The effect appears like this: Two Wiz Kids brings the adult a box filled with bicycle parts and ask for help in assembling it. The instructions are huge and unwieldy to work with, so the adult (usually Jim, but sometimes Fred) begins to tear them up to make them smaller. As the instructions are torn, the resulting bicycle being assembled by the two Wiz Kids begins to look wierder and wierder, with pedals attached to handlebars, and wheels in odd places. Finally the adult stops the work, restores the instructions and holds them over the "contraption." When the instructions are removed, we see the assembled bicycle. But now the two Wiz Kids want to be first to ride it, so they start a "tug of war" with the bike. The adult stops them and visibly pulls the bike apart, transforming it into two unicycles, giving each Wiz Kid one and sending them off riding together on unicycles to seque into the juggling/unicycle finale. It's not for every one... you need two kids who can unicycle as your assistants, so I doubt there will ever be a great demand for this one.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
Dynamike Eternal Order FullTimer 24148 Posts |
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On 2008-09-08 00:16, Spellbinder wrote: I can't find it. What is the direct link? |
Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Here it is: http://www.magicnook.com/kidmagic/tornComic.htm
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
Dynamike Eternal Order FullTimer 24148 Posts |
Thank you. I'm sure the kids will like the colors.
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The Awesome One Regular user Gold Coast, Australia 174 Posts |
I like this, I never thought of doing a torn restored with a comic or colouring book, it goes so well with the colouring book effect. There are some great routine possibilities.
Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
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harris Inner circle Harris Deutsch 8812 Posts |
Hmm I wonder if the effect would be spoiled by having the page..reappear in the book. (anyone remember the author that came up with that idea?...seems like it was someone who worked in the mentalism field...??)
Harris Deutsch aka dr laugh
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
The coloring book page can easily reappear in the book if you don't have the page signed. Tear it up, restore it, and then crumple it into a ball and vanish it as you toss the invisible page towards the book. Open the book and the page is back in place. Easily accomplished.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
jondark445 Special user 716 Posts |
Has anyone gotten and performed torn and restored comic book? I'd like to know how it is in real world conditions....
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
On Free Comic Book Day (last Saturday, May 2nd) Wiz Kid Qua-Fiki used it as a walk around by using a small "digest sized" Archie/ Jughead comic book. The small size makes it easy to "dowhatchagottado" in making the restoration, and it's also easier to tear into very small pieces.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
Jeff Haas Special user 931 Posts |
Harris...missed your question the first time. You're thinking of "The Pegasus Page" by Arthur Emerson. Versions of the trick have been done by Ted Lesley and Docc Hilford, among others. Usually done as a spooky Halloween trick.
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
I have my own version of "The Pegasus Page" called "Pegasus Redeemed" in The Wizards' Journal #15, but I would not think that effect would do as well for kids because it focuses on the mystery of a selected page disappearing from the book and appearing somewhere else. In my version, the selected page vanishes bit by bit, and it is fine for mental magic and an adult audience, but I think kids would miss the point that someone chose a page by number, etc.
Kids can understand and appreciate the torn and restored page. They can also understand and appreciate vanishing the restored page and making it reappear back in the book. Those concepts are broad enough and elementary enough from most kids from five and up. You can also hold their attention with those effects.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
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