Yardley has been greatly interested in comics for most of his life, as well as the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series.

Scott Shaw was one of the first artists who worked on Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog series.

Although Sega canceled their Sonic the Hedgehog comic series, Archie Comics brought back Yardley, alongside colleagues Ian Flynn and Matt Herms, to revive their Cosmo the Merry Martian intellectual property.

Yardley worked as the main penciler/inker of an original manga-like series known as Riding Shotgun, published by Tokyopop.

[4] Yardley has recently illustrated on a graphic novel starring Felix the Cat written by Mike Federali and Bob Frantz which was released in November 7, 2023 by Rocketship.