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Emile Clifton
| Emile Clifton | |
| Born | circa 1920 USA |
|---|---|
| Died | April 1, 1984 (age 63) |
Emile "Cliff" G. Clifton, Jr. ( 1920? - April 1, 1984) was a magician from the San Francisco area that performed as Konjo Koiff the Mad-Gician in the 1950s.
Biography
Clifton was a captain and fighter pilot for the famed Tuskeegee Airmen during World War II and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross.
He was a member of IBM Ring 38 in San Francisco and a magic instructor at Tom Dethlefson's Golden Gate Magic Co. in San Francisco. He was listed as the "staff artist" for the first issues of Woodfield's Magicana and also illustrator for some magic books.
Clifton was a mentor to Pete Biro, who mentions him in his "Reel Works" Genii columns. He contributed effects to Linking Ring, MUM, Magick and Genii and his "Slide-Out" card production is in Apocalypse Vol 10, No. 12 (December, 1987)
References
- Ebony, January 1950
- Genii 1984 May, Light from the Lamp, page 376.
- Genii 1984 August, Pete Biro's Reel Works, page 618
- Broken Wand Linking Ring December 1984.
- Harlem of the West: the San Francisco Fillmore jazz era] by Elizabeth Pepin, Lewis Watts (2006)
- http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=34083&fpart=1
