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Virgil Franklin Partch 2nd became a cartoonist because he wanted to make a living sitting down. Last week, 28-year-old Cartoonist Partch (pen name: VIP) was sitting pretty. He was a regular Collier's contributor of two years' standing, he had a fat commercial advertising contract, and his first book of comic drawings, It's Hot in Here (McBride; $1) was selling fast in U.S. bookstores...
...Here is a thin (80-page), close-cropped (5-by-7-in.) book of ferocious, slapstick, sometimes disturbing gag-drawings plus a short introduction by Magazine Writer Kyle (Redder Than the Rose) Crichton. "Virgil Partch is nuts," writes Crichton, ". . . but nuts in a nice American way." Partch fans found little that was Nelly-nice, less that was especially American. But they did find a fresh-cartoon humor, based on a slambang, explosive brand of fantasy. Example...
...Dean of the Rutgers Summer School, Clarence E. Partch, will come to see how the Harvard school works, taking a summer off from his regular job, while Jakob Rosenberg, art critic and formerly Assistant Director of Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum, will lecture on Fine Arts...