Editing Virgil Partch (section)

{{Short description|American gag cartoonist}}
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'''Virgil Franklin Partch''' (October 17, 1916 – August 10, 1984), who generally signed his work '''Vip''',<ref name=cdi>[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPXN-R7R Virgil Franklin Partch] at the 
California Death Index via FamilySearch.org. Retrieved on August 27, 2015.</ref> was an American gag cartoonist. His work appeared in magazines of the 1940s and 1950s, and he created the newspaper [[comic strips]] ''[[Big George (comic strip)|Big George]]'' and ''[[The Captain's Gig]]''. <!--Partch's cartoons expressed a dry, sardonic wit, and his characters were instantly recognizable by their lipless mouths, large, triangular noses, thin ankles and thin wrists, and sometimes well-combed [[Fringe (hair)|bangs]].--> 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."<ref name=bhob>{{cite news| author-link=Bhob Stewart| first=Bhob |last=Stewart |title=R.I.P. VIP| work= Nemo | issue=14 |date=August 1985| publisher= [[Fantagraphics]]|page= 39}}</ref>