In addition to a job with The Ohio State Journal, he also worked with architectural firms, with labor gangs and on the Cincinnati suspension bridge.

[2][3] Leaving Ohio in 1930, Keller relocated to Staten Island, began making gag cartoon sales to major New York magazines and married his Brooklyn-born wife in 1934.

[6] Keller contributed to College Humor, Collier's, Dude, Esquire, Forbes, Gee-Whiz, Judge, Liberty, Life, McCall's, The New Yorker, Pageant, Playboy, Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, This Week and many other magazines.

[1] Collier's cartoon editor Gurney Williams wrote about Keller's wacky sculpture constructions: The onrushing Christmas season brings to mind some of the goofy gifts we've received from cartoonist Reamer Keller, whose newest wheeze is reproduced on page 66 and whose Collier's-born hillbilly feature, Kennesaw, will be released as a daily newspaper strip come December 7th.

There have been other Noel nifties of this ilk, but Keller rang the eight bell with his unhandy but decorative Combination Lighter & Ash Tray, fashioned from a life-size lingerie-shop dummy.

[7]In the early 1950s, Keller began Kennesaw in Collier's and then expanded this series of hillbilly characters as a comic strip, launched December 7, 1953.