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Exhibit--Impressions of Dragons 2 Jun 12-19, 2014

Soft Opening: June 13th 5pm- 8pm
Exhibition Dates June 13th – June 19th

Enjoy an exhibition sneak peek of 40+ personal works of art from creators currently working at DreamWorks Animation Studios. Pencil, pen and ink, paint and sculpture pieces all showcasing their personal impressions of the characters and relationships from latest film coming out of DreamWorks Animation Studios this month, “How To Train Your Dragon 2”

Books and Prints by these artists along with “The Art of How To Train Your Dragon 2” will be available to purchase.

Special Event Presentation June 14th:Presentation Title: Sequence 300: AWOL

Join in this opportunity to walk into the creative minds of Tron Mai Story/Visual Development Artist, Robert Crawford Head of Layout, andThomas Grummt Animator all currently working at DreamWorks Animation as they take you through their process of working together at DreamWorks Animation on Sequence 300 from How to Train Your Dragon 2. Creating an animated film is one of the most collaborative experiences for an artist. During this presentation and you will see how interconnected each creative role is as they take you from script, through development, layout and animation. Extremely limited seating.… Click Here

Where:

CENTER STAGE GALLERY

Hours Tues – Sunday noon – 8:00pm     Phone Number:  818 259 1598

Gallery Address:

847 Hollywood Way Space 100
Burbank, CA 91505
Driving Directions
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Virgil Partch cartoonist

Virgil Partch cartoonist

Virgil Franklin Partch (October 17, 1916 – August 10, 1984) was one of the most prominent and prolific American magazine gag cartoonists of the 1940s and 1950s. His unusual style, surreal humor and familiar abbreviated signature (VIP) made his cartoons distinctive and eye-catching. 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 bangs. He was a gagwriter for The New Yorker magazine, but his own cartoons were rarely published there because, according to VIP biographer Bhob Stewart, "New Yorker editor Harold Ross couldn't stomach VIP's drawing style."[1]

Born on Saint Paul Island, Alaska, Partch attended high school in Tucson, Arizona and studied at the University of Arizona. In 1937, Partch enrolled at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he attended Rico LeBrun's classes for six months before dropping out. He later began a four-year stint working for Disney studios – his departure was connected to the Disney animators' strike of 1941. Soon he began selling gag cartoons to large-circulation magazines, including Collier's 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 with great success. 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, selling nearly 95,000 hardcover copies by the decade's end.[2] Many of VIP's cartoons depicted a suave, urban sophisticate or trendy suburbanite, revealing him to be a dipsomaniac obsessed with sex, power, prestige and money. In VIP Throws a Party, one of his cartoons shows a depressed man sitting over his drink in a dark corner table, all alone, saying, "Sometimes I get so tired of me, I make myself sick." On the cover of Cartoon Fun a surfer holds the loose bikini-top straps of a woman who says, "I hope you know how to steer this thing, Sam."

Later in his career Partch drew the successful syndicated comic strip Big George and created the lesser-known but somewhat edgier strip, The Captain's Gig (about a motley bunch of mariners and castaways), syndicated by Field Enterprises. He also illustrated several children's books. 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."[3]

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. His cousin was the composer Harry Partch.[4]