He worked as a graphic artist for Amalgamated Press and Fleetway on children's comics, notably their Thriller series (November 1951 – May 1963).

During the 1970s he was working for the Mansell Collection,[4] a commercial picture archive which was housed at 42 Linden Gardens; he was living there with actor Brian Rawlinson in an outbuilding that served as his own studio.

The artist was in regular contact with others in the field: he corresponded with Al Shapiro ("A. Jay") arts editor at Drummer, Bill Schmeling ("The Hun") and Harry Bush.

[8] In the 1990s, now living in Stratford with his then-partner Christie's silver expert Stephen Helliwell, both were diagnosed with AIDS and died within a few months of each other in 1996.

Some of his work remained with his "dowager partner" Brian Rawlinson in a space he used for drawing but eventually the studio (at Linden Gardens), filled with piles of magazines and detritus, needed clearing.

With Rawlinson's blessing and the help of artist Guy Burch, they sifted the material to extract an archive of work and related ephemera.

Bremner also died of AIDS but the works were kept together by Burch but the explicit nature of many drawings made display or publication difficult.