In the 1960s he started working with the Martin Toonder studios in the Netherlands, drawing newspaper strips including Panda, Tom Poes and Kappie. He drew comic strips for newspapers in five different countries, and also filled in for Leo Baxendale on strips like "General Nitt and his Barmy Army" and "Georgie's Germs" for the British comic Wham! He moved to Ireland in the 1960s, living first at Carrigower, then Rathdrum, both in County Wicklow.