DATE OF THIS ** ORIGINAL ** ILLUSTRATED COVER: 1940 Jay Irving (October 3, 1900 – June 3, 1970) was an American cartoonist notable for his syndicated strip Pottsy about an overweight, goodnatured, dutiful New York police officer, Pottsy, who often came into conflict with his stricter and less imaginative sergeant, known only as "Sarge." Born in New York, Irving became familiar with police procedures and activities at an early age when his father, Abraham Rafsky, was a lieutenant in the New York Police Department. After attending Columbia University, Irving was employed as an insurance salesman for New York Life and a police reporter for the New York Globe. In 1932, Irving began a 13-year association with Collier's, drawing the weekly cartoon panel Collier's Cops. He also did covers for Collier's, including the famous Halloween cover for the October 26, 1940 issue. In 1946, he created the short-lived comic strip Willie Doodle, also about a fat and cheerful police officer, for the Herald-Tribune Syndicate. His Pottsy strip was syndicated by the Tribune-News Syndicate from 1955 until 1970. Irving's son, Clifford, was an art student in the mid-1940s at the High School of Music & Art, and he assisted his father by doing lettering on both Willie Doodle and Pottsy. Clifford Irving later wrote about the art world in his notable biography Fake! The Story of Elmyr de Hory, the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time (1969). The word "Pottsy" entered the language during the run of the strip. A police officer who prevented the loss of his badge by wearing a fake badge referred to the fake as a Pottsy. Later, these fake badges became known as "dupes". Irving and younger cartoonist friend Mel Casson were regular performers on the ABC television series Draw Me a Laugh (1949), which the two men jointly produced. The show was hosted by Patricia Bright and Walter Hurley. Guest cartoonists included Gus Edson. Viewers sent in ideas which were drawn by the cartoonists while members of the studio audience created the gag lines. Folk singer Oscar Brand then vocalized the "singing captions". The show lasted only 13 weeks and proved to be a financial disaster from which Irving, who had borrowed money to pay for the production, never really recovered. Irving was 69 when he died of a heart attack in his Manhattan apartment at 650 West End Avenue. His bedridden wife Dorothy survived him by less than a year. He was also survived by his son, the novelist Clifford Irving; a brother, John Norman; and two sisters, Beabe Hamilburg and Mabel Rosenthal.
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