 While seeking another job he read in the Toronto Star an exchange between a farmer and an editor in which the editor extolled the virtues of <unk> only to have the farmer rebut him and challenge him to try out farming . Frise drew a cartoon of the editor struggling to milk a cow and a farmer as an editor ; he submitted it to the Star , where it appeared in the Star Weekly supplement on that 12 November . He visited the Star 's offices the following Monday and the Editor @-@ in @-@ Chief hired him immediately . He began by lettering titles and touching up photos until the Star Weekly 's editor J. Herbert Cranston enlisted him for his drawing skills . Frise illustrated news stories and the children 's feature The Old Mother Nature Club , and did political cartoons . His cartoons also appeared in publications such as the Owen Sound Sun . 
