 Impresario F. F. Proctor approached McCay in April 1906 to perform chalk talks for the vaudeville circuit . For $ 500 per week he was to draw twenty @-@ five sketches in fifteen minutes before live audiences , as a pit band played a piece called " Dream of the Rarebit Fiend " . In his The Seven Ages of Man routine , he drew two faces and progressively aged them . His first performance was on June 11 , 1906 , in a show that also featured entertainer W. C. Fields . It was a success , and McCay toured with the show throughout 1907 , while managing to complete his comic strip and illustration work on time , often working in hotel rooms or backstage . 
