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Scope and Contents of the Collection
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| Creator: | Doty, Roy, 1922- |
| Title: | Roy Doty Cartoons |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1947-1970 |
| Quantity: | 12 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Artwork of the American cartoonist and illustrator. Original book covers and illustrations, and cartoons for magazines and newspapers. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Biographical History
Roy Doty (1922-2015) was an American cartoonist and illustrator, with a career spanning more than sixty years.
Doty grew up in Columbus, Ohio and served in World War II as a cartoonist. After the war he moved to New York City where he began his career as a freelance cartoonist. He wrote and drew the Laugh In strip for three years in the 1960s, and his Wordless Workshop, published in Family Handyman, has been running for more than 50 years. Doty illustrated more than 170 children's books, wrote 27, edited several monthly newsletters including a children's newsletter for the American Institute for Cancer Research, and was published in venues as diverse as the New York Times, Field & Stream, Popular Science, the London Daily Mail, and Elle Magazine. Doty's artwork has appeared on packages, book covers, and advertising; his clients included Black and Decker, Buick, the Copper Council, Ford, Macy's, Minute Maid, Mobil Oil, Perrier, Safari Club International, and Texas Instruments.
Doty was recognized numerous times by his peers, including a six-time recipient of The National Cartoonists Society's award for Advertising Illustration (1967, 1970, 1978, 1989, 1996, 2005). He also received an award for illustration of greeting cards from the National Cartoonists Society in 1994.
Dory died in March 18, 2015, age 92.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Roy Doty Cartoons collection consists of original artwork and some published drawings.
The Original artwork series comprises the bulk of the collection. The series is subdivided into the following: book illustrations, magazine cartoons and newspaper cartoons. Book illustrations are arranged alphabetically by book title and some also include cover art. Th illustrated titles in the collection include: Instant Dog: The Quick and Easy Way to Produce a Family Dog, Elinor Goulding Smith's The Complete Book of Absolutely Perfect Baby and Child Care, Letters to Paul Baby, with a letter concerning Paul Baby illustrations and more.
The subseries magazine cartoons contains original artwork from several publications, including: Charm, Golf, Look, The New Republic, Woman's Day, Woman's Home Companion, Ski magazine as well as others. The series also has original art from Family Circle and Family Weekly, including illustrations for Family Weekly poetry. Miscellaneous art in this series contains art for Macy's advertisements and other unidentified cartoons featured in magazines.
Newspaper cartoons, another subseries, includes original daily and Sunday panels from the comic strip Laugh In (1968-1970) and over 500 original cartoons from The New York Times (1948-1966).
Printed material consists of one item for The Compleat Dissenter, an United clipping from The Christian Herald and miscellaneous artwork. The miscellaneous art includes cartoon proofs and a printed illustration, most likely from The Herald Tribune's Today's Living and Look magazine.
Arrangement of the Collection
The collection is arranged by series. Similar material is often not housed together due to size. At times, items were left in their original order, such as many of the book illustrations, as opposed to being organized in alphabetical or chronological order.
Restrictions
Access Restrictions
The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.
Use Restrictions
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Related Material
The book Instant Dog: The Quick and Easy Way to Produce a Family Dog featuring illustrations by Roy Doty was removed from the collection and transferred to Rare Books.
Special Collections Research Center has collections of more than 150 cartoonists. Please refer to the SCRC Subject Index for a complete listing.
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Roy Doty Papers
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Roy Doty, 1967-1971.
Finding Aid Information
Created by: KBP
Date: 25 Apr 1979
Revision history: 1979 - additions (KBP);
9 Oct 2007 - converted to EAD (MRC);
7 Jun 2011 - processed collection, updating inventory, scope etc. (AM);
24 March 2015 - biography updated (MRC)
Inventory
| Original artwork | |||||||||||
| Book illustrations | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | The Battered Bride: Things Your Mother Never Told You circa 1960 (37 items) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Complete Book of Absolutely Perfect Baby and Child Care, Elinor Goulding Smith undated (40 items) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Exit Backwards, Bowing (McMillan Publishing Company) 1970 (25 panels) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 5 | Instant Dog: The Quick and Easy Way to Produce a Family Dog (Dutton Publishing) circa 1968 (55 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Is Europe Necessary?, Ronald M. Deutsch circa 1960 (2 items) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Letters to Paul Baby, Paul Dixon (World Publishing Company) 1970 (18 panels, 1 letter) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6 | A Man Around the House, Harlan Miller, (Random House) undated (2 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6 | Tale of a Whistling Shrimp, Vladimir Grinioff, (Dutton Publishing) undated (1 item) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6 | Three Cheers for Me, Donald Lamont Jack undated (1 item) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Unfair Sex: The Expose of the Human Male for Young Women of Most Ages, Nina Farewell circa 1960 (55 items) | ||||||||||
| Magazine cartoons | |||||||||||
| Oversize 19 | Charm Jul 1951 - Jan 1955, undated (10 items) | ||||||||||
| Family Circle magazine | |||||||||||
| Oversize 13 | Mar 1950 - Dec 1959 (89 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 12 | Jan 1960 - Jul 1966, (57 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 12 | Undated (62 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 19 | Undated (1 item) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 7 | Family Weekly undated (9 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Family Weekly undated (43 items) | ||||||||||
| Possibly Family Weekly poetry. | |||||||||||
| Family Weekly poetry Jul 1964 - Jul 1965, undated | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | A-D (13 items) | ||||||||||
| Address to my beagle
All is forgiven Auto intoxication Be my Valedtide Beach togs Birds of a feather Cooks detour Cordon blooey Crossword puzzle for strikes back Cutting remarks Dad's lament Day after Christmas Dish count |
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| Oversize 1 | E-G (13 items) | ||||||||||
| East system
Easter habit Effervescent adolescent Fall guy Father and son talk Father chooses a Christmas Tree Father cleans the basement Feast song Friends of the bride The gal in the galley Go, Mom, go Good clean fun The graduate |
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| Oversize 2 | H-K (11 items) | ||||||||||
| Hair brained
Home grown tomatoes Hope springs eternal Hot items House call House detective I just let it roll off Inscription for a tool box It'll be a beauty It pays to be methodical King for a day |
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| Oversize 2 | L-Mi (10 items) | ||||||||||
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Lines inscribed with Lingering lineup Little lyric for Labor Day Lost and found dept. Loving dangerously Man power Maternal address system Meeting Milestone Minor league baseball schedule |
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| Oversize 2 | Mo-O (15 items) | ||||||||||
| Morning horoscope
Music note My co-pilot is no pilot My man Saturday Near tragedy New Year's Resolutions -- phooey No carrying charge No hard feelings No tobacco road Nook knack Once in a lifetime One missing "Oops!" Out of the past Overwhelming popularity |
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| Oversize 3 | P-Q (11 items) | ||||||||||
| Parents also have growing pains
Party of the first part Paternal vespers Phoney business Polishing up for the room Pop concert Premonition Price tags Putting in my five cents worth Quick switch Quiz for mothers |
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| Oversize 3 | R-S (14 items) | ||||||||||
| Relics retreat
Remedies for a cold Saga of Billy Smith Sand in my crankcase Saturday chef The score on decor Semester song Social error Sockfull Spatter matters Step right up Story for Mother's Day Sylvan soliloquy Sylvester and Genevieve |
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| Oversize 3 | T-W (14 items) | ||||||||||
| Tenting on the old camp ground
Thanks but I prefer less for my money They went thataway Three cheers Trapped The tree trimmer "Uniformity" The unkindest cut Unsettled with showers Vacation souvenirs Weekend weather brief Welcome July Well defined When she stands up straight I hardly recognize her |
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| Oversize 6 | Family Weekly, Types of Drivers undated (5 items) | ||||||||||
| Compact
Economy model Extended payment plan Mini-car Sports car |
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| Oversize 11 | Golf magazine undated (1 item) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Holiday magazine Jun 1950 - Aug 1951, undated (7 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 13 | Look magazine Apr 1958 - Jan 1962, undated (28 items) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The New Republic Nov 7 1947 (1 item) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 13 | Ski magazine undated (4 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 13 | Sports Illustrated Aug 1957 - Sep 1958 (7 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 13 | Suburbia Today Jun 1961 - Jul 1963, (4 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Suburbia Today undated (6 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 6 | This Week magazine May 1950 - Aug 1954, undated (15 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 18 | Today's Living, The Herald Tribune Magazine 1956-1958 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 19 | Today's Living, The Herald Tribune Magazine 1958 (1 large item) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 14 | Today's Living, The Herald Tribune Magazine 1959 - 1963, undated (98 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 18 | Vista Magazine undated (1 item) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 18 | Woman's Day Jun 1950, undated (5 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 11 | Woman's Home Companion Oct 1950 - Mar 1951 (8 items) | ||||||||||
| How to Defrost a Freezer
How to Stretch a Refrigerator Now We Have More Time for Fun |
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| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
| Oversize 11 | Macy's ads undated (3 items) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Unidentified cartoons undated (8 items) | ||||||||||
| Newspaper cartoons | |||||||||||
| Laugh In | |||||||||||
| Oversize 7 | Daily panels Oct - Dec 1968 (61 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 8 | Daily panels Jan - Jun 1969 (108 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 9 | Daily panels Jul - Dec 1969, Jan - May 1970 (126 items and 80 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 10 | Sunday panels Nov 1968 - Mar 1970 (34 items) | ||||||||||
| The New York Times | |||||||||||
| Oversize 11 | 1948 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 19 | 1948 (1 large item) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 17 | 1949 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 11 | 1950 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 17 | 1951 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 17 | 1952 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 11 | 1953 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 17 | 1955-1956 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 11 | 1957-1958 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 16 | 1959 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 19 | 1959 (1 large item) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 18 | 1960 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 19 | 1960 (1 large item) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 16 | 1961 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 16 | 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 15 | 1962 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 15 | 1963 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 19 | 1963 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1964 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 15 | 1964 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 20 | 1964 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 20 | 1965 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 18 | 1966 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 18 | Undated | ||||||||||
| Printed material | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Compleat Dissenter (1 item) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | United clipping - The Christian Herald (1 item) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Miscellaneous art - proof sheets and illustration, possibly from Today's Living and Look magazine (6 items) | ||||||||||