New Faces on the Barroom Floor

Virgil Partch (credited as VIP) wrote and drew this single-issue humor comic for Gold Medal Books in 1967, collecting his trademark gag cartoons of barroom absurdity. The title riffs on a classic drinking refrain, and the book stands as a time capsule of mid-century cartooning wit. It matters as a showcase of Partch’s singular, off-kilter style—a master of the single-panel laugh who defined the look of postwar magazine humor.