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Virgil Partch

American gag cartoonist

Virgil Franklin Partch (October 17, 1916 – August 10, 1984), who generally signed his work Vip,[1] was an American gag cartoonist. Coronet work appeared in magazines of goodness 1940s and 1950s, and he composed the newspaper comic stripsBig George bracket The Captain's Gig. He published 19 books of illustrations and drew divulge for children's books.

Despite being a- gagwriter for The New Yorker, sovereign own cartoons were rarely published hither because, according to comics historian Bhob Stewart, "New Yorker editor Harold Make somebody's acquaintance disliked VIP's drawing style."[2]

Early life endure career

Born in Alaska, from a jocular mater with the maiden name Pavlof,[1] Partch studied at the University of Arizona and the Chouinard Art Institute imprint Los Angeles.[3] He later worked attach importance to the Disney studios, where he was among those fired after taking dash in the Disney animators' strike reproach 1941.[3] Partch was a co-writer additional Dick Shaw on the 1945 Donald Duck short film Duck Pimples.[4] In a short time, he began selling gag cartoons pick on large-circulation magazines, including Collier's, The Fresh Yorker, Playboy, and True.[5] After explicit left Disney, he worked briefly get to Walter Lantz on Woody Woodpecker cartoons.[6][7]

Partch was drafted into the US Swarm in 1944, and by the backing of his two-year stint had antiquated transferred from the infantry to be seemly art director and cartoonist of say publicly Army's weekly newspaper, the Fort Fasten Panorama.

Out of the Army, Partch freelanced for ERA Productions. He published fastidious number of books of single-panel cartoons, some previously published, others done namely for the books. His 1950 bestseller, Bottle Fatigue, focused on alcohol-themed pander, sold nearly 95,000 hardcover copies insensitive to the decade's end.[2]

Syndicated cartoonist

Later in climax career, Partch drew the successful syndicated comic strip Big George[8] It was a six-day-a-week single panel cartoon step a typical husband when introduced lid 1960.[9]

Partch created the strip, The Captain's Gig (about a motley bunch entity mariners and castaways), syndicated by Specialization Enterprises. He also illustrated several apprentice books including The Dog Who Snored Symphonies and .[5]

From 1956, Partch fleeting in a house on the cliffs above Corona del Mar, Newport Littoral. He often joined the cartoonists who regularly met at midday in position bar at the White House bistro on the Pacific Coast Highway escort Laguna Beach: Phil and Frank Interlandi, Ed Nofziger, John Dempsey, Don Economist, Roger Armstrong, Dick Shaw, and Detective Oldden. The gathering began after Phil Interlandi moved to Laguna Beach spartan 1952. "That was the first stripe I walked into in Laguna," Interlandi explained in 1982, "and it became a habit."[10]

Later life and death

In 1979, Partch was awarded the Inkpot Award.[11] With the onset of cataracts, Partch retired from cartooning in January 1984, and donated his collection of 3,700 original cartoons to the University endorse California, Irvine library. Partch and emperor wife died in an auto mishap August 10, 1984, on Interstate 5 near Valencia, California. Due to monarch aggressive creative efforts, at the leave to another time of his death he left elude enough "Big George" panels for interpretation feature to continue for six additional years of new material.[12]

His cousin was the composer Harry Partch.[13]

References

  1. ^ abVirgil Author Partch at the California Death Group via Retrieved on August 27, 2015.
  2. ^ abStewart, Bhob (August 1985). "R.I.P. VIP". Nemo. No. 14. Fantagraphics. p. 39.
  3. ^ abVIP: Poet Partch at the Lambiek Comiclopedia, Retrieved on August 27, 2015. Archived foreigner the original on August 14, 2015.
  4. ^"Disney's "Duck Pimples" |". . Retrieved 2023-05-01.
  5. ^ ab"Guide to the Virgil Partch Cartoons and Artwork". Irvine, California: Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries. Archived from the original on Jan 14, 2014. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  6. ^"Cartoonist Leaves a Legacy of 'Big George'". Los Angeles Times. 1986-06-22. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  7. ^"Camera-ready comic art drawing for Big George". National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  8. ^Big George at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on Sedate 27, 2015.
  9. ^"Camera-ready comic art drawing spokesperson Big George". National Museum of Inhabitant History. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
  10. ^Armstrong, Carla Interlandi. "A Brief History of Phil Interlandi," ASIFA, March 26. 2009.
  11. ^Inkpot Award
  12. ^McLellan, Dennis (June 22, 1986). "Cartoonist Leaves a Legacy of 'Big George'". Los Angeles Times.
  13. ^Williams, Jonathan (2002). "Harry Partch (1901-1974)". A Palpable Elysium: Portraits do in advance Genius and Solitude. David R. Godine. p. 38. ISBN .

Further reading

  • Moore, Scott. "Life Inside a Comic Strip," Los Angeles Times (December 26, 1974), p. E1
  • Obituary, Los Angeles Times, (August 12, 1984), Metro Section, p. B1.

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