 After leaving Michigan in 1983 he moved to New York City and worked for magazines and newspapers including "Elle", "Manhattan", "Inc.", "Nuclear Times", and the "Village Voice" as a production artist.Dangle has contributed to AIDS education efforts, particularly for IV drug users, including art directing the handbook "The Works", used in prisons and drug rehabilitation clinics.He created a billboard, TV, and print campaign around a superhero, Bleachman, whose duty was to teach IV drug users to clean their needles at a time when needle exchange programs were illegal in California.