Amelia Opdyke Jones

Amelia Ross Opdyke Jones (November 13, 1913 – December 30, 1993) was an American cartoonist who sometimes signed her work with the name "Oppy".

She graduated from the Dearborn Morgan School in East Orange, New Jersey and went on to the Art Students League of New York, where she balked at learning to draw anatomy by observing a corpse dissection.

[1][2] In the 1930s, she published illustrations in Life magazine and drew a one-panel comic strip for United Feature Syndicate called The Young Idear.

[4] She worked for commercial artist Fred Cooper, who drew The Subway Sun, a comic strip in the form of a poster hung in subway cars.

"[2] Amelia Opdyke Jones died on 30 December 1993 in Sea Girt, New Jersey.

A poster by Jones promoting subway service to Aqueduct Racetrack