"Topsy" (1935) by Carey Orr

In his youth, Orr was a semi-professional baseball pitcher, and he used the money he made from baseball to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After a $15 a week job at the Chicago Examiner, he was 24 when he began at the Nashville Tennessean as a full-time editorial cartoonist. In 1917, he signed on with the Chicago Tribune, where he stayed for 46 years.

He was related to Martha Orr, the cartoonist who drew "Apple Mary".

Over 5,000 original editorial cartoons, color proofs and scrapbooks of published cartoons are contained in an archive of his work (54 linear ft) at the Syracuse University Libraries.