Jay Irving (born Irving Joel Rafsky in New York) is a cartoonist best known for his syndicated strip Pottsy about a New York policeman. 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. November 24, 1917 cover Colliers Weekly was an American magazine that was published between 1888 and 1957. ...

Irving was 69 when he died of a heart attack in his New York apartment on June 5, 1970. June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

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. Clifford Irving (born November 5, 1930) is a US writer famous for his authorized autobiography of Howard Hughes. ... For other people named Howard Hughes, see Howard Hughes (disambiguation). ...