Potts, Arthur ‘Spot’ (1908 - 1950)

Arthur Potts 'Spot' original cartoon artwork

Arthur Potts, who worked under the pseudonym of ‘Spot’, was the sports' cartoonist for the Bristol Evening World during the 1930s. He mainly depicted local football teams Bristol Rovers and Bristol City and the county cricket team Gloucestershire. In 1939, he was living at the YMCA in Bristol. When the Second World War broke out, he was asked to stop drawing sporting cartoons and produce political ones in order to raise the morale of the newspaper’s readership. In 1945, Potts was lured to the Daily Mail to draw Teddy Tail, which he did for the rest of his career working alongside Wally Fawkes and Leslie Illingworth. Potts, who suffered from sever asthma, died in South Kensington in June 1950 aged only 41.