The Linking Ring

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The Linking Ring is a monthly print magazine, published by the International Brotherhood of Magicians. It is also available in electronic form to members of the IBM. All members of the IBM are entitled to receive this periodical. It was first published in 1923.[citation needed] Samuel Patrick Smith, a Eustis, Florida -based magician, author and publisher, became executive editor of the magazine in 2007.[1]

List of Magicians featured on the cover of past issues

Notes

  • Nelson Hahne did not actually appear on the cover of the December 2007 Linking Ring, but rather an illustration drawn using his style appears on the cover of that issue. The "Cover Story" within that issue, however, discusses the life and contributions of Mr. Hahne to the magic world.
  • Kristen Johnson[29] followed in the footsteps of her mother Sunny Johnson, who appeared on the cover in March 2002.

Notable Issues/Contributors

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  • In the July 1996 edition, Fantasio contributed a One Man Parade.[30]

Monthly Features/Columns

  • Hocus In Focus is the journal review section, listing reviews of a wide array of books, marketed effects and utility devices as well as magic related videos.[31]
  • Our Side of the Pond
  • The Expert at the Tech Table
  • The President's Page
  • Hocus Pocus Parade is the title of a regular column which appears in The Linking Ring, published by The International Brotherhood of Magicians. Although the table of contents usually lists the specific contributing magician's name (i.e. "Max Maven One Man Parade").[32] the column itself is still named Hocus Pocus Parade.
  • Ring Reports is a collection of monthly reports, submitted by the Ring Reporters for each respective IBM Ring.
  • Situationally Yours
  • Memoirs of a Magician's Ghost: The Autobiography of John Booth
  • Marcom...from the table of my memory
  • '"Potter's Bar'", a series of columns by Jack Potter (d.1978), giving bibliographic references to periodical and book descriptions of magical effects. They were later collected and published as Master Index to Magic in Print.[33]

Editors Emeriti

Errata

  • The table of contents for issue 5, volume 79 lists Hocus Pocus Parade as starting on page 105 yet it actually starts on page 87 of that issue.[37][38]

External links

References

  1. http://www.magician.org/portal/node/116
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  33. T. A. Waters, The Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians. NY: Facts on File, 1988 ISBN 0-8160-1349-7, p. 267
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