Editing Virgil Partch (section)

==Syndicated cartoonist==
[[File:Captainsgig1.jpg|right|thumb|500px|Virgil Partch's ''The Captain's Gig'' (September 25, 1977)]]
Later in his career, Partch drew the successful syndicated comic strip ''Big George''<ref name=toonopedia-biggeorge>[http://toonopedia.com/bigeorge.htm ''Big George''] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]].  [https://archive.today/20240527114914/https://www.webcitation.org/6b68yy8GY?url=http://toonopedia.com/bigeorge.htm Archived] from the original on August 27, 2015.</ref> It was a six-day-a-week [[single panel cartoon]] about a typical husband when introduced in 1960.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.si.edu/object/camera-ready-comic-art-drawing-big-george%3Anmah_1400709|title=Camera-ready comic art drawing for Big George|publisher=[[National Museum of American History]]|access-date=June 5, 2024}}</ref>

Partch created the strip, ''The Captain's Gig'' (about a motley bunch of mariners and castaways), syndicated by [[Field Newspaper Syndicate|Field Enterprises]]. He also illustrated several children's books including ''The Dog Who Snored Symphonies'' and ''The Christmas Cookie Sprinkle Snatcher''.<ref name=irvine />

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 (California)|Pacific Coast Highway]] in [[Laguna Beach, California|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."<ref>[http://www.animationarchive.org/2009/03/pinups-early-interlandi-playboy.html Armstrong, Carla Interlandi. "A Brief History of Phil Interlandi," ASIFA, March 26. 2009.]</ref>