 Following the war, he resumed his studies and syndicated a series of panel cartoons from 1921 to 1925.These covered a variety of subjects, with some series, such as "Who Cares for the Feelings of a Small Boy", "The Local Boy", "Back o' the Flats", "The Little Girl Who Moved Away" and "Send a Poor Child to the Farm", featuring children, particularly from the slums.One such series, "Always Belittlin'", presaged "Skippy" with its star, a child with a striped shawl and a bonnet with a black pop-pom, whose thoughts consisted of the text's daily aphorism.