Ray Helle

Ray Helle (born 1917) is an artist who was born in New York City and trained as a cartoonist at the Pratt Institute. He crafted freelance gag cartoons until 1941, then entered military service and saw action in Europe during World War II. After the war, he was primarily a gag cartoonist until 1954, after which he focused on his daily comic strips The Flibbertys and Box Seat. He went into semi-retirement in 1989.