He is known for having created the underground comix strip 'Cultural Jetlag' together with Tom Roberts in the 1990s, which appeared in many alternative press publications, and from 1997 to 2001 in TIME (magazine) and USA Weekend.
[2] Jim Siergey has said that he was "brought up to be a polite boy" and that "music, writing, drawing, wordplay and humor were as much of a pastime while growing up as any physical activity."
[2] In his twenties, Siergey met Jay Lynch, a trailblazer of underground comix, which he describes as a turning point in his life.
[3] In the early 1980s, Siergey started his career as a freelance cartoonist and animator, working on commercials as well as educational and industrial films, which he continued into the 1990s.
[3] In the 1990s, he created the comic strip 'Cultural Jetlag' together with late writer Tom Roberts,[2] which appeared in many alternative press publications, before TIME (magazine) and USA Weekend carried it from 1997 to 2001.