 Billingsley contributed early cartoons to "Kids", a magazine "by kids for kids" published in Cambridge, Massachusetts and then in New York City, from 1970 to 1975 under the co-editorship of Jenette Kahn (later president and editor-in-chief of "MAD Magazine" and DC Comics).After graduating from the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, he attended the School of Visual Arts on a four-year scholarship.After graduating, he began an internship at Walt Disney Studios in 1979.