Jack's Copy of The Wild, Wild Women by Virgil Partch

Back in 1951, a buck could buy you a nice, if cheaply bound, cartoon book such as The Wild, Wild Women by the similarly wild, wild Virgil Franklin Partch. A copy originally belonging to someone named Jack is sketched with an original self-portrait of the artist and signed Vip, as he commonly abbreviates himself, on the artist's canvas. It is inscribed "To Jack! from the world's oldest cartoonist," a curious thing to write in the year one turns thirty-five. It must have been an inside joke. Jack's book found its way to the collection of cartoon historian Bill Bush and thence from his estate to Space Cadets of Conroe, Texas, which in turn listed it on eBay.

Virgil Partch
eBay listing ended October 22, 2024

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Virgil Partch
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