Like John Maginnis and Jeff Crouere, Gill has made a career of lampooning Louisiana political figures.
[6] One of Gill's major topics in late 2008 and early 2009 was U.S. Representative Joseph Cao, who ousted indicted incumbent William J. Jefferson in Louisiana's 2nd congressional district[7]—and related issues such as the New Orleans e-mail controversies and repercussions related to City Councilwoman Stacy Head.
[8] In April 2009, Gill championed of the use of unstaffed cameras to photograph and ticket motorists who ignore red lights.
His first book, published in 1975, is titled Racecourses of Great Britain, and contains insight into many of the horse racing grounds in the country.
Published in 1997, his Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans[10] was the first book to examine the role of Mardi Gras in New Orleans' political and social development as well as the first to analyze racial segregation in the krewes, which produce the annual parades.