Happy Birthday Roy Doty!
Above: Roy Doty's lllustration from Look magazine, April 15th, 1958.
It's illustrator Roy Doty's birthday! I first discovered Roy's wonderful work as a child, when I got my hands on a stack of 1950s issues of Popular Science and became obsessed with his "Wordless Workshop" comic strip.
A few years ago, I learned that Roy was still illustrating for books and magazines, with no sign of slowing down after a six-decade career. I contacted him about illustrating for MAKE magazine. He like the ideas, and now illustrates MAKE's puzzle page.
From The Complete Guide to Cartooning By Gene Byrnes, Grosset & Dunlap (1950):
"A crowd to Roy Doty isn't just a lot of people repeating themselves. It is a big and wonderful collection of individuals, each doing something different. The throng behind the radio announcer is worth studying for the variety of action portrayed, and for its pattern of beautiful linework."
Happy birthday, Roy!
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I loved those PopSci cartoon/columns . . . Pantomime DIY!
Once I got to knew Doty's style I was able to spot his work in other places. I recall one from "Consumer Reports" showing a bunch of toddlers admiring an under-sink cabinet full of deadly chemicals.
As a kid I grew up on Popular Science and Doty illustrations as well. He's an American classic...
Thanks Mark, for once again posting about one of my blog's topics! Just a quick note to anyone who drops by to leave a birthday greeting for Roy: he doesn't know yet that he's been showcased this week and that the National Cartoonist Society is throwing him a surprise birthday party on Sunday so... please don't tell Roy! We want to surprise him after the fact. ;-)
Coincidence. A few hours ago I read that Doty used to live in the small community - Silvermine - that I used to live in.