He drew several comic strips, including Hollywood Hams (for the Los Angeles Daily News) and Mortimer Snerd and Charlie McCarthy.

[3] In the early 1940s he joined, Dell Publishing where he was one of the first artists to draw comic stories featuring Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd.

With the onslaught of World War II, Craig signed on with the United States Navy in 1942 and worked as a training manual illustrator at Hollywood's famed Vine Street Pier.

[4] Comics historian Mark Evanier summarized several aspects of Craig's career: Chase was born in Texas and moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s to get into the animation business.

Craig recognized the genius of Carl Barks whose Scrooge McDuck, Junior Woodchucks, and other Disney duck characters have delighted generations of fans.

For Dell's Disney titles, Craig created and scripted such characters as the Li'l Bad Wolf, Br'er Rabbit, Little Bear Bongo and José Carioca.

He envisioned Magnus as "a sort of future Tarzan" and enlisted the artistic and story writing talents of Russ Manning for the new series which premiered in February 1963.

He died December 2, 2001, at Los Robles Regional Medical Center (in Thousand Oaks, California), following complications after a surgery caused by a fall.