Silvermine is often graced with posters about events like the Silvermiler Road Race, the arrival of Santa Claus, and the Pancake Breakfast. The cartoons for these posters, and for the first page of the Silvermine News, are the creations of Roy Doty, a cartoonist for over 58 years—and a fellow Silverminer.

Roy says that he wanted to be a cartoonist since fourth grade. When he went to the Columbus College of Art and Design, they tried to make him into a fine artist. Luckily, the war intervened. “The Army,” Roy said, “makes musicians into cooks and cooks into drill sergeants. It made me into a cartoonist.” He was especially influenced by French and British cartoonists and soon began to freelance for the London Daily Mail and Elle.

After his discharge, Roy found his way to New York. He soon was doing cartoons and ads for the New York Times Magazine, CBS, and Seventeen Magazine. But Roy did more than draw. He had some memorable appearances on the “Ernie Kovacs Show,” which led to his own children’s television show, “The Roy Doty Show,” appearing every weekday morning from 1952 to 1955. In the 1960s he created the “Laugh-In” cartoon strip. His “Wordless Workshop” cartoon has been running for 50 years and appears monthly in The Family Handyman. Amazingly, Roy has found time to illustrate and/or write 176 books.

Roy lived in Silvermine on Grey Hollow Road for 20 years. He now lives in Dublin, Ohio, where he continues to work—and golf.