Charles Edward Kelly (15 June 1902 – 20 January 1981) was an Irish cartoonist, and one of the founders and editors of the satirical magazine Dublin Opinion.

Kelly was educated at Synge Street CBS,[1] and joined the Irish civil service as a messenger boy at the age of 15.

Kelly had no formal art training, and developed his style by studying the work of the leading cartoonists of the time.

After Collins' death Kelly struggled on with Dublin Opinion for a few years, before it was voluntarily wound up in 1968.

His daughter, Pauline Bracken, is a journalist who wrote a memoir, Light of Other Days: A Dublin Childhood, published in 1992.