Roy Nelson

• Born 1905-05-17 · Died 1956-09-14

Roy Nelson was an American cartoonist and caricaturist. He worked primarily for the Chicago Daily News from the mid-1920s through the late '40s, except for a brief stint in the early '30s, when he worked for the Disney Studio doing publicity artwork and helping with the Mickey Mouse comic strip, and a few years in the Army during World War 2. Additionally, he regularly contributed cartoons to publications such as Esquire, The Sporting News, and Hearst newspapers. In 1951 he created a daily strip named "Mot, Dot, and Tot". He was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1953 and passed away in 1956.