One panel gags har deres helt specielle plads i tegneserie historien, tænk bare på vores hjemlige superstjerner Wulff-Morgenthaler. Nu skal vi rejse tilbage i tiden til 40’erne og 50’erne og studere een af kunstformens helt store mestre, amerikaneren Virgil Partch, bedre kendt som “VIP”. Partch startede ud hos Disney og Walter Lantz, blev indkaldt til hæren, hvor han blev art director og humor tegner på deres ugentlige avis, Panorama, og blev så freelancer for ERA Productions i 1946, hvor hans surrealistiske, alkohol-vædede humor gjorde ham til datidens mest prominente gag mand i USA. Hans gags blev samlet i bestseller bøger, hvor også nye gags blev tilføjet, og ofte var det alkohol, der var det roterende tema. Til juli får vi chancen for at dykke ned i VIP’s univers i en ny kaffebordsbog fra Fanta, og det skal nok give os tømmermænd!
Product Details
- Hardcover:240 pages
- Publisher:Fantagraphics; 1 edition (July 20, 2013)
- Language:English
- ISBN-10:1606996649
- ISBN-13: 978-1606996645
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Book Description
Publication Date: July 20, 2013
The first coffee-table book featuring comics, letters and much more from the mid-century cartoonist who revitalized the gag cartoon.
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 day. VIP contributed to an astonishing array of magazines, wrote gags for other cartoonists, illustrated books, album covers, and advertisements, and adorned merchandise including, appropriately, cocktail glasses. VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch is the first time Partch’s life and career has been treated in full, collecting amazing artwork from the entire range of his inspired career and featuring his own writings. Reprinted from original art, primary-source publications, and collectors’ and family archives, VIP’s place in the world of cartooning and humor can finally be fully appreciated in this beautiful coffee-table volume. 120 pages of full color illustrations and 120 pages of black and white illustrations
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About the Author
Virgil Franklin Partch (October 17, 1916 – August 10, 1984) was one of the most prominent and prolific American magazine gag cartoonists of the 1940s and 1950s. His unusual style, surreal humor and familiar abbreviated signature (VIP) made his cartoons distinctive and eye-catching.
Jonathan Barli is the art director of Rosebud Archives. He designed The Comics Journal #302 and writes about cartooning, most recently an historical essay about Dudley Fisher in Hogan’s Alley magazine. He lives in New Jersey.
