 When he had worked an almost two-year stint as a sculptor for Mattel, and was preparing his return to college, he was arrested for draft refusal and sentenced to two years in federal prison at McNeil Island Corrections Center, in Washington state.His experiences there and the period after his release were the genesis of his underground comix series "Inner City Romance", published by Last Gasp beginning in 1972.He was financially unable to continue art school as planned but deeply committed to painting as his life work, so was mainly self-taught thereafter.