VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch by Partch, Virgil; Barli, Jonathan [Editor] - 2013-11-16

Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, WA, 2013. Minor cover and edge wear to book, slightest bow to front cover. Inside clean with no markings or writing. Nice copy, satisfaction guaranteed.

Fantagraphics, 2013-11-16. Hardcover. Like New.

Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 240 pages. Only a few months after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor and the same year that Albert Camus offered the world his bleak vision of man’s existence by introducing his philosophical dictum of The Absurd, Virgil Partch burst onto the scene with his own twist on the phrase. Partch was a cartoonist who offered comic counterpoint to the grim headlines and a unique perspective on human nature in the pages of the nation’s most popular magazines. Known to millions by his jazzy signature, VIP, this comic genius ushered in a new era of the gag cartoon―zany, sometimes surreal, always hilarious―that inspired a generation of fellow cartoonists starting in the 1940s and ’50s. His madcap style of humor was reflected in the cutting-edge comedic sensibilities of Burns & Allen, Jack Benny, Ernie Kovacs, Bob & Ray, Stan Freberg, and Jean Shepherd, and would position Partch as one of the most prolific “gag-men” of his… Read More

Fantagraphics, 2013-11-16. Hardcover. New.

Fantagraphics Books, 2013. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 216 pages. 12.00x9.00x1.00 inches.