In 1948 Kurtzman produced a Sunday comic strip, "Silver Linings", which ran infrequently in the "New York Herald Tribune" between March and June. Lee had "Hey Look!" brought to an end in 1949 so Kurtzman could concentrate on longer features for Timely's family-oriented line. Kurtzman was assigned artwork duties for the Lee-scripted "Rusty", an imitation of Chic Young's comic strip "Blondie", but was disappointed with this type of work and began looking for other employment. He sold episodes of the one-pagers "Egghead Doodle" and "Genius" to Timely and Al Capp's Toby Press on a freelance basis. He also sold longer pieces to Toby, including episodes of his Western parody "Pot Shot Pete", a short-lived series that hinted at the pop-culture satire Kurtzman was to become known for.