 He then married Bethel Burson of Silverton, Texas, and the newlyweds headed for New York where he became a freelance illustrator with work published in a variety of magazines, including "Redbook", "Pictorial Review", "Ladies' Home Journal" and "Boys' Life".It took him two years to crack the major market, "The Saturday Evening Post", work that included illustrating the popular "Plupy" stories of Henry Shute.Jim Ivey, curator of the Cartoon Museum in Orlando, Florida, stated, "He was one of the best magazine illustrators in the 1920s and 1930s—the Golden Age of magazine illustrating.