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Showing posts with label *7. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Jack Herbert's Copy of The Art in Cartooning

Bauman Rare Books offers a special copy of The Art in Cartooning: Seventy-five Years of American Magazine Cartoons  (1975), edited by Edwin Fisher, Mort Gerberg, and Ron Wolin for the Cartoonists Guild. The book is inscribed to one Jack Herbert and has original drawings by Jack Ziegler, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, and Bill Woodman. It is listed at $2,500.


The dust jacket shows The Closed Mind, an experimental piece by cartoonist Charles Saxon.


The drawings by Ziegler and Wilson are quite generous, each fairly elaborate and alone on a full page. The theme seems to be bottles. Unfortunately, the bookseller has not provided scans of the Gross and Woodman drawings, so we don't know whether this theme is continued.



The Art in Cartooning
Bauman Rare Books listing accessed April 13, 2024




Note:  There are now seven copies of The Art in Cartooning posted to this blog. Each is unique in its own way. There are no doubt other fine copies out there with original drawings, signatures, or inscriptions from noteworthy cartoonists. I am always excited to post images from such copies. Please send them along to my inbox for consideration.


If anyone should happen into Bauman Rare Books, please see if you can snap a photo or two of the missing Gross and Woodman drawings for the sake of posterity.



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Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Virgil Partch for Personna Blades

A 1946 advertisement for Personna precision blades by Virgil Partch, or Vip, takes full advantage of this cartoonist's reputation for zany and oddball gags. The advertising copy seems tailor-made for him. "People who see my cartoons think I'm nuts. But actually I'm crazy in only one respect...." Could it possibly have been written by Vip, "Famous cartoonist," himself?


Vip
Personna precision blades advertisement
The New Yorker, November 16, 1946, page 108




Another Vip ad for Personna dates from 1947. It plays off Partch's penchant for grotesque, even surrealistic, gags. The copy is again remarkably good. Might it have been written by Vip as well?


"I really have only one head—" says VIP (famous cartoonist) "...but I sure used it when I switched to super-sharp Personna Blades. Shaving used to be tough as a cartoon editor's heart, but now it's as easy as spending an editor's money. These days I always have my best face forward..."


Vip
Personna precision blades advertisement
The New Yorker, March 15, 1947, page 85



 


https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1946-11-16/flipbook/108/

https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1947-03-15/flipbook/084/




Note:  I suppose I could have missed something. Are there by chance any other ads for Personna by Vip? By all means write if you know of any. And always get a close shave.


September 22, 2021 Update:  It turns out that contributor Jeff Nelson is familiar with these ads. He writes:


I also have only seen those two ads for that brand; although I have also seen the same ones run in issues of Esquire and Saturday Evening Post at about the same time as the ones you found in the New Yorker.


I have no evidence, but I have always operated under the assumption that VIP was himself writing the copy for the majority of his advertising work. They have very much the same madcap style of humor, and the same skewed sensibility as his cartoons. This is one reason why I like his ads so very much—they seem to be of one body with his gag panels, in a manner which only [Charles] Addams and [Ronald] Searle seem to share...


High praise indeed for Mr. Partch.





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Friday, October 16, 2020

Snookey's Copy of The Wild, Wild Women by Vip

Today Scott Burns shares with us a scan of Snookey's copy of The Wild, Wild Women (1952) by Virgil Franklin Partch, Vip if you like. As far as the zany drawing goes, the eyes have it.
Scan by Scott Burns


Note:
  My thanks once again go to Scott Burns. This is the seventh post to which he's contributed, and there's still more to come.

Attempted Bloggery seeks more signed Virgil Partch books bearing original drawings just like this one. Well, more or less like this one.

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