Career
He also authored a book called "You Can Draw Cartoons", published in 1960 by Doubleday. Darvas started his artistic journey as a cartoonist at Thomas Jefferson Junior High School, and then at the West Technical High School through the 11th grade. He then got a job scrapping old signs for an advertising firm, while he followed his cartoonist training in night art classes at John Huntington Institute.
Darvas"s first newspaper job was with the Toledo News Bee as an artist.
He moved to Cleveland and worked with the Cleveland Press from 1938 onwards. During World World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Corps as head of the drafting and art room of the senior staff school supervising charts and graphs for secret Air Force statistical records.
He was the author of a daily comic strip called "Half Nelson" for the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate for a year before returning to Cleveland Press. His work appeared regularly from 1946 onwards on the cover of the Sporting News.