Word: vip
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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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...
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...