Anyone seen The Magician?
Ray Shoesmith, former soldier turned hitman, was first sketched by Ryan in the late 1990s for a student project at RMIT, and introduced to the wider world in
The Magician, a critically acclaimed but little-seen mockumentary released in 2005 (there’s a lovely little nod to the film in the penultimate episode of this season, a gift, Ryan says, for the loyal fans who’ve been there from the beginning, and maybe an invitation to more recent ones to “go and do a deep dive and find the film”).
Scott Ryan created Ray Shoesmith, a laconic hitman with a very ordinary domestic life, as a student project in the late ’90s. Now he finally says goodbye.
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