 On September 23, 1911, he married Jeanette Lawson, with whom he had two sons.By 1926 he had begun to illustrate magazines, including "Ginger", "Pep", and "Hot Stuff", and in 1928 his work began to appear in pulp magazines, including covers for "Clues Detective Stories", "The Dragnet", "Rangeland Love", "Popular Engineering Stories", and "The Underworld".From 1935 to 1939 his drawings appeared in comic books produced by Centaur Comics, Harry "A" Chesler, DC Comics and Dell Publishing.