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Virgil Franklin Partch (born October 17, 1916, St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA – died August 10, 1984, Valencia, California (aged 67)), who generally signed his work Vip, was an American gag cartoonist. His work appeared in magazines of the 1940s and 1950s, and he created the newspaper comic strips Big George and The Captain's Gig. He published 19 books of illustrations and drew art for children's books.

Despite being a gagwriter for The New Yorker, his own cartoons were rarely published there because, according to comics historian Bhob Stewart, "New Yorker editor Harold Ross disliked VIP's drawing style."

Born in Alaska, from a mother with the maiden name Pavlof, Partch studied at the University of Arizona and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.

In 1937 Virgil traveled to Southern California seeking employment in animated films. He was hired by Disney Studios as an office boy. In 1938 he was promoted to the position of animator, and in that same year Virgil Patch and Helen Aldridge were married by a Justice of the Peace in Tucson. Partch was a co-writer with Dick Shaw on the 1945 Donald Duck short film Duck Pimples.
One of the people he met while working at Disney was gag cartoonist Dick Shaw, who both jumpstarted Partch’s cartooning career and was the subject of scores of x-rated cartoon parodies by Partch and other cartoonists. Shaw sent Partch’s work to The New Yorker, which published it. They also paid Partch a considerable fee, something that caught Partch’s attention. Thus enticed, Partch submitted more comics to publications, although The New Yorker eventually deemed him too gross for its pages. His comics were published in PM, True Magazine, Collier’s, Look, Saturday Evening Post, Liberty, and This Week.

Labor trouble came to Disney Studios in 1941, resulting in a strike. Following the settlement Virgil and other employees were discharged for participating in the walkout. Virgil and Helen Partch are now living on unemployment checks.

Soon, he began selling gag cartoons to large-circulation magazines, including Collier's, The New Yorker, Playboy, and True.
After he left Disney, he worked briefly for Walter Lantz on Woody Woodpecker cartoons.

Partch was drafted into the US Army in 1944, and by the end of his two-year stint had been transferred from the infantry to become art director and cartoonist of the Army's weekly newspaper, the Fort Ord Panorama.

Out of the Army, Partch freelanced for ERA Productions. He published a number of books of single-panel cartoons, some previously published, others done specifically for the books. His 1950 bestseller, Bottle Fatigue, focused on alcohol-themed humor, sold nearly 95,000 hardcover copies by the decade's end.

Later in his career, Partch drew the successful syndicated comic strip Big George. It was a six-day-a-week single panel cartoon about a typical husband when introduced in 1960.

Partch created the strip, The Captain's Gig (about a motley bunch of mariners and castaways), syndicated by Field Enterprises. He also illustrated several children's books including The Dog Who Snored Symphonies and The Christmas Cookie Sprinkle Snatcher.

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

In 1979, Partch was awarded the Inkpot Award. With the onset of cataracts, Partch retired from cartooning in January 1984, and donated his collection of 3,700 original cartoons to the University of California, Irvine library.
Partch and his wife died in an auto accident August 10, 1984, on Interstate 5 near Valencia, California.
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