His cartoons were first published in the Sunday Tribune in 1981, and he was joint winner of a competition in the Guardian in 1985 with a cartoon about the famine in Ethiopia and Sudan. From 1990 to 1992, as Luke Warm, he had a regular cartoon, "Fence Sittin'", in the Botswana newspaper Mmegi. He moved to London in August 1992, and has since had his cartoons published in the Financial Times, The Irish Times, The Sunday Business Post, The Sunday Times, the Times Educational Supplement, the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the London Evening Standard, the Financial News, the New Stateman, Scallywag, Third Sector, Magill, Business & Finance and The Phoenix. His finance and office-based comic strip, "Punters", was syndicated by the Press Association for two years. Another strip about int