Howard Arey co-founded and co-edited Strip! magazine, a student cartoonist quarterly, together with Andrice Arp, Bishakh Som and Michael Aushenker. Arey, Arp and Som, along with Joan Reilly, then moved on to form Hi-Horse Comics in 2001. Besides appearing in the group's anthologies, Arey's work has also been published in Shout magazine and Radical Society.