He moved to San Francisco, California, in 1967, where he soon found work designing posters for Bill Graham at The Fillmore Auditorium.

He soon branched out into album covers and "comix" work for the Print Mint, Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, and other local underground publishers.

Irons' collaborations with writer Tom Veitch in the early 1970s (the creative team was known as "GI/TV") included Deviant Slice Funnies, Legion of Charlies.

[2] A solo comic entitled Light Comitragies was published in June 1971 by the Print Mint.

On November 14, 1984, while on a working vacation in Bangkok, Thailand, Irons was struck and killed by a bus.