James Carver Pusey, Jr., born in Avondale, Pennsylvania, was a newspaper cartoonist best known for his pantomime strip, Benny. His first strip was Cat Tales, which was also mostly pantomime, though a few feature vaudeville-style gags. Cat Tales ran in the mid- to late 1920s (and a brief resurgence in the 1930s), with the same strips showing up in different papers in different years. Pusey’s talent with pantomime briefly took him to Hollywood, where he was one of several writers working with the Marx Brothers on the movie Monkey Business.
