After his discharge, Tingley toured the country on his motorcycle hoping to find work as a cartoonist only to have the various newspapers he applied to turn him down.
Tingley's honours include the National Newspaper Award for editorial cartooning in 1955, National Headliner Award for Editorial Cartoon year for 1965[3] and induction into the Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame in 2015.
In addition, collections of his work are stored at the University of Western Ontario and at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.
[4] After his retirement in 1986, his artistic contributions have been commemorated since 2014 at the Ting Comic And Graphic Arts Festival in London, Ontario.
It is an annual three-week arts festival at The TAP Centre for Creativity devoted to cartooning and sequential art which includes gallery displays of various local Canadian artists including selections of Tingley's art, as well as various activities devoted to the medium and is scheduled to conclude with the annual Free Comic Book Day event.