When the comics page needed the long arm of the law, everyone knew you could count on Jay Irving, whose cartooning career was spent chronicling the exploits of lovable cops. Our feature in Hogan's Alley #16 provided a biography of one of comics' unjustly forgotten practitioners, and here we present some examples of his Willie Doodle and Pottsy strips, as well as some of his magazine cartooning.

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Willie Doodle, Nov. 2, 1947	Cartoon from the Oct. 7, 1933, Collier's	Willie Doodle, Oct. 26, 1947
Cartoon from the Oct. 14, 1933, Collier's	Willie Doodle, July 20, 1947	Collier's cover, Feb. 8, 1941
Willie Doodle, June 22, 1947	Original art from Willie Doodle, Nov. 23, 1947	Willie Doodle, June 15, 1947
Newspaper ad for Draw Me A Laugh, a cartooning TV program that Irving and other cartoonists (named in the ad) developed	Willie Doodle, May 25, 1947	Original art from Pottsy, March 27, 1966
Willie Doodle, May 2, 1948	Pottsy, June 14, 1959	Willie Doodle, April 11, 1948
Pottsy, Dec. 28, 1958	Willie Doodle, Jan. 11, 1948	A rough for a Pottsy Sunday
A rough for a Pottsy Sunday	A rough for a Pottsy Sunday
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