Jay Irving

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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.