In the early 1970s he moved to Leeds and studied art at the Jacob Kramer College of Art, followed by Fine Art at Manchester.Although both a lover of painting and sculpture, a great love of fine art drawing , painting , and also literature led to a medium which combined these two aspects....comics.Comics had been a life-long passion.He began drawing single-page "Captain Whimsy" and "Paddy Kool" strips in a variety of magazines and fanzines, after producing his own comic adventures referencing Jack Kerouac , "On the Road" style hitch-hiking sorties in Europe. Troolife Comix (aka Troolife Funnies),were finished in 1974; the second in 1976.