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...WILD, WILD WOMEN - Virgil Partch-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Editors like Gurney Williams consider Gardner Rea, veteran of 37 years in the business, and Virgil Partch, a comparative newcomer, two of the top artists in the country. (But Peter Arno gets top pay. When he bothers to turn out a cartoon the price is reputed to be $1,000.) Partch, no Wednesday go-to-market man, lives in North Hollywood, Calif., has never been east of New Mexico, tells editors he can make his characters just as gruesome in the West as he could in New York...
Sometimes Partch succeeds with straight insanity: "Who the hell writes your stuff?" asks an eye doctor's patient as he sits before a wall chart inscribed ELPQZVCRNIDTWU...
Reluctant Success. "You are sitting before a man who is utterly devoid of ambition," Virgil Partch once told an admiring visitor. But three years ago, Hollywooder Partch found himself trying to support his wife and child on $18 weekly unemployment relief checks. He had taken part in a strike at the Walt Disney Studios. Eighteen-dollar boredom finally prompted Partch to send a batch of cartoons to Collier's Cartoon Editor Gurney Williams...
Williams bought them. Since then, VIP cartoons have titillated Collier's readers every week. Partch supplies his own gags, considers them the easiest part of his work. To the New Yorker he sells gags alone. He also sells cartoons to Manhattan's PM, draws ads for Wheaties and for Squirt (a California-made drink mixer...