JAY IRVING

'Jay Irving' (born 'Irving Joel Rafsky' in New York) is a cartoonist best known for his syndicated strip ''Pottsy'' about a New York police officer. Irving attended Columbia University and then worked as a newspaper reporter for several papers. He became a sports cartoonist in the late 1920s, drew the strip ''Bozo Blimp'' for King Features Syndicate and spent two years in advertising.
In 1932, Irving began a 13-year association with ''Collier's Weekly'', drawing the weekly panel ''Collier's Cops''. He created the short-lived comic strip ''Willie Doodle'' for the Herald-Tribune Syndicate in 1946. His ''Pottsy'' strip was syndicated by the Tribune-News Syndicate from 1955 until 1970.
Irving was 69 when he died of a heart attack in his New York apartment on June 5, 1970.
Jay Irving's son is the novelist and non-fiction author Clifford Irving, who used his father's art supplies to create forgeries necessary for his 1971 hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes.