Jeff McBride
The Showdoctor - Jeff McBride
I call this figure:
The Showdoctor
See the American magician Jeff McBride! He achieved world-fame for his Mask-Show and his card manipulations. Today he runs a Magic School in Las Vegas with classroom, library, masks on the walls and all kinds of props in cabinets. The translator of my books QUICK CHANGE 1 and QUICK CHANGE 2 lecturer there.
The first idea was to paint the great magic teacher with his mask, but wearing it, you might mix him up with one of my -even more famous- comic hero. He also conducts a Magic School – namely the most famous of the world – the Stuttgart Magic School! To be sincerly Stuttgart is not Las Vegas at all – but they are working on it, cutting down trees.
Anyway, I drew the Las Vegas teacher without his mask, but if you take a closer look, you can find them on the cards. And as I matter of course, he wears a tailcoat and top hat – guess what… he even wears it on stage(!!!).
This cartoon has been published in the trade magazine „Magische Welt“ 1/2011. Find a full page ready to cut it out so that you can hang it up over your stage or behind the curtain.
Jeff McBride really exist: www.mcbridemagic.com/
Dibond 30 x 40 cm
Boris Wild
Der Serienküsser Boris Wild
I call this figure
Serialkisser
See the French magician Boris Wild. In his world famous performance everything is about kisses, which he – the biggest heartthrob produces. Somebody working so hard on its image even in the global aspect… this is like a sitting duck for a caricaturist like me.
Thus a magician suited in the French national colours is (kiss) stamping everything he can lay his lips on, so that even the heart he enthrones melts by all this corniness.
This cartoon has been published in the trade magazine „Magische Welt“ 6/2010. Find a full page ready to cut it out so that you can hang it up over your bed or behind the door.
Boris Wild really exist: www.boriswild.com
Dibond 30 x 40 cm
Banachek
Der Lord der Zeit - Banachek
I call this figure
Lord of Time
Banachek, who lives in Texas today is by far the at most notable mental magician of the last decade.
Hardly any other has influenced mentalmagic like him. Amongst his greatest tricks there are telekinetic experiments. Thus using the power of the mind to cause the movement of matter at a distance.
He not only bends spoons just by looking at them like Uri Geller but also makes ball pens drop from the table. Words chosen from a book by the audience – by someone who usually does not read – are disclosed to him. One of his most famous illusions is the telekinetic movement of the hands of someone else’s wrist watch exactly the number of minutes the owner desires.
I have painted Banachek in his typical thinker’s pose, dressed in blue and green which was characteristic for him back then. Showing his best illusion – stopping time. I provided him with a proper tail for sure. Thanks to his lovely hairstyle he escaped from wearing a tophat. Otherwise he gets in bad trouble with his hairdresser. But even the greatest mentalist cannot come off with me without the rabbit.
This cartoon has been published in the trade magazine „Magische Welt“
5/2010. Find a full page ready to cut it out so that you can hang it up over your bed or behind the wall clock.
Banachek really exist: www.banachek.com
Dibond – 30 x 40 cm
Hans Klok
Hans Klok & Zarina - Die zersägende Dame
I call this picture
the sawing woman
Any explanation is unnecessary. Shame on you, if you do not know him. After being honoured with the FISM World Champions Second Place for illusions in 1997 his career made a meteoric rise and he travelled the entire world. He is one of Europe’s most popular illusionists. Probably the most famous in Germany. The Dutch even had his own show in Las Vegas with Pamela Anderson.
I have pictured Hans Klok and his mate Zarina in this cartoon. Zarina is usually the bad guy in the shows intending to kill beautiful Hans. Up to now, he always managed to get out of her clutches. Of course his hair streams out behind by the fan, he uses to have at his stage.
They are performing the illusion: “Sawing (a) woman”
Hans Klok really exist: www.hansklok.com
Dibond – 30 x 40 cm
Die zersägende Jungfrau - Hans Klok & Zarina
Werry
I have been working since 2010 as cartoonist for the trade magazine „Die Magische Welt“ producing the portraits for the respective issues. In the scope of the 60th anniversary of the journal I have been requested to caricature the founder and first publisher of the magazine. But how to allegorise someone who is no longer with us? I decided to draw him looking dignifiedly down to us. Much that he had been complaining about in his magazine the other day, has hardly changed by now.
This cartoon has been published on several pages in the trade magazine „Magische Welt“ 1/2011 which now starts into its 60s year. Congratulations.
60 Jahre Magische Welt - Werry
