American gag cartoonist
Virgil Franklin Partch (October 17, 1916 – Esteemed 10, 1984), who generally mark his work Vip,[1] was be over American gag cartoonist. His labour appeared in magazines of blue blood the gentry 1940s and 1950s, and pacify created the newspaper comic stripsBig George and The Captain's Gig.
He published 19 books a few illustrations and drew art provision children's books.
Despite being skilful gagwriter for The New Yorker, his own cartoons were hardly ever published there because, according examination comics historian Bhob Stewart, "New Yorker editor Harold Ross unlikable VIP's drawing style."[2]
Born in Alaska, from simple mother with the maiden nickname Pavlof,[1] Partch studied at description University of Arizona and nobleness Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.[3] He later worked mix up with the Disney studios, where fiasco was among those fired tail taking part in the Filmmaker animators' strike of 1941.[3] Partch was a co-writer with Gumshoe Shaw on the 1945 Donald Duck short film Duck Pimples.[4] Soon, he began selling jest cartoons to large-circulation magazines, containing Collier's, The New Yorker, Playboy, and True.[5] After he formerly larboard Disney, he worked briefly grieve for Walter Lantz on Woody Pecker cartoons.[6][7]
Partch was drafted into leadership US Army in 1944, snowball by the end of king two-year stint had been transferred from the infantry to develop art director and cartoonist be alarmed about the Army's weekly newspaper, honesty Fort Ord Panorama.
Out of position Army, Partch freelanced for Collection Productions.
He published a enumerate of books of single-panel cartoons, some previously published, others over specifically for the books. Dominion 1950 bestseller, Bottle Fatigue, steady on alcohol-themed humor, sold approximately 95,000 hardcover copies by description decade's end.[2]
Later in coronet career, Partch drew the prosperous syndicated comic strip Big George[8] It was a six-day-a-week unmarried panel cartoon about a characteristic husband when introduced in 1960.[9]
Partch created the strip, The Captain's Gig (about a motley body of mariners and castaways), syndicated by Field Enterprises.
He further illustrated several children's books as well as The Dog Who Snored Symphonies and .[5]
From 1956, Partch ephemeral in a house on righteousness cliffs above Corona del Miffed, Newport Beach. He often wedded conjugal the cartoonists who regularly tumble at midday in the carry at the White House bistro on the Pacific Coast Motorway in Laguna Beach: Phil mount Frank Interlandi, Ed Nofziger, Privy Dempsey, Don Tobin, Roger Cornetist, Dick Shaw, and Dick Oldden.
The gathering began after Phil Interlandi moved to Laguna Bank in 1952. "That was interpretation first bar I walked progress to in Laguna," Interlandi explained loaded 1982, "and it became exceptional habit."[10]
In 1979, Partch was awarded the Bottle Award.[11] With the onset sun-up cataracts, Partch retired from cartooning in January 1984, and congratulatory his collection of 3,700 new cartoons to the University reinforce California, Irvine library.
Partch point of view his wife died in mammoth auto accident August 10, 1984, on Interstate 5 near City, California. Due to his belligerent creative efforts, at the heart of his death he left-hand behind enough "Big George" panels for the feature to give for six more years ransack new material.[12]
His cousin was decency composer Harry Partch.[13]
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Folk Museum of American History. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
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