- Born
- Died
- Birth nameVirgil Franklin Partch II
- Nickname
- VIP
- Virgil Partch was born on October 17, 1916 in St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA. He was a writer, known for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967), The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980) and Duck Pimples (1945). He was married to Helen Marie Aldridge. He died on August 10, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseHelen Marie Aldridge(1938 - August 10, 1984) (his death, 3 children)
- Signed his work ''VIP''.
- The cartoons he drew were marked by a kind of maniacal humor that presented people in absurd situations. One well-known panel drawn by him showed a man walking down a sunny street under an umbrella and soaked to the skin by rain falling only under his umbrella. Another had a man on a rowing machine who suddenly sees shark's fins cutting through the floor around him.
- Best known for the daily Big George cartoon character distributed nationally by News America Syndicate.
- Was a passenger in the car driven by his 64-year-old wife when it collided with a trailer being pulled by a slower-moving pickup truck, killing them both. The pickup driver told the highway patrol he was traveling about 50 miles an hour when the crash occurred.
- His first job was at Walt Disney Studios, working his way up to assistant animator before being discharged in the early 1940's when he took part in a strike.
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