"[1][4] He spent time painting and traveling in Europe before moving to California, where he lived in the North Beach section of San Francisco.

The income from Playboy provided financial security that enabled him in 1967 to move Brown and his daughter Kalia[6] to the suburb of Fairfax, Marin County.

The books that followed Cat consisted mostly of extremely bizarre cartoons that find their humor in their utter strangeness and unlikeliness.

Another frequent subject of satire was the type of wordless, step-by-step visual instruction manuals typically found with such things as office furniture.

Kliban also had a recurring series of drawings called "Sheer Poetry," in which the page would be split into six panels, containing images of objects whose names, when spoken in the order presented, would form a rhyming, nonsensical verse.