 He illustrated the popular newspaper column of humorist Bill Nye for many years, and has thus been called the first syndicated cartoonist.While his caricature of Nye was widely recognized, it was reportedly disliked by Nye himself.He illustrated the comic strip "Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz" (1904–1905), written by L. Frank Baum, as well as his own novel "The Hidden City" (1891) and story books such as "Comic Animals" (1890) and "The Rambillicus Book" (1903).