After leaving the commercial art world in 1965, he illustrated comics and magazines for D.C. Thomson in Dundee then became a graphic artist and designer with Scottish Television for three years.
[2] In 1975, along with friend and fellow banjo player Billy Connolly, he devised and wrote the successful cartoon strip, The Big Yin for the Sunday Mail.
[2] As a skilled banjo player, he was a member of the Scottish skiffle group, the Vindscreen Vipers, and contributed the artwork for the album Ah'll Get Ye!
His caricature skill got him invited to corporate events in Jamaica, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Romania, Kuwait, India and Russia.
He was a key player in organising the National Cartoon Festival which was held annually in Ayr, Scotland between 1998 and 2002, and was a regular after-dinner speaker.