- He took a correspondence course in drawing, but had no formal training as an artist. He drew comic strips for military newspapers while serving in the Army Air Corps during WWII.
- In the 1950s and early '60s, he worked as a police-department clerk in Oakland, and moonlighted drawing cartoons for magazines such as Black World and Ebony. In 1965, he launched the comic strip "Wee Pals," which featured a multi-ethnic bunch of kids and made him one of the first mainstream black cartoonists.
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