The single-panel gag cartoon was a daily look at Toonerville, situated in what are now called the suburbs.

When he was fifteen years old, he sold a gag cartoon to Life magazine.

He has also produced two collections of gag cartoons, Haw!

There are some well-established themes which recur regularly in gag cartoons.

He began drawing gag cartoons for Britain's national press whilst still at school.

He had several gag cartoons in Yank by the end of October 1945.

Around 1936, though, he turned away from these gag cartoons and began making "symbolic drawings," pen-and-ink works expressing states of mind.

The New Yorker, which loved his gag cartoons, was not interested.

Soon he began selling gag cartoons to large-circulation magazines, including Collier's and True.

BUT as television came along and literary magazines faded, so too did the platform for gag cartoons.