 Later, during his college years, he worked for Irvin-Fuller Theaters as its Advertising and Publicity Manager.As a teenager, Irvin edited and published two issues of the fanzine "Pit" (69-70), and four annual issues of "Bizarre" (1972–1975), a fanzine on fantasy, horror and science fiction films, for which he twice traveled to England to conduct in-person interviews, including Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Jane Seymour, Joan Collins, Terence Fisher, Freddie Francis, Sir James Carreras, Michael Carreras, etc.In 1978, Irvin graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts.