Lawrence Tyler Dresser grew up on a Sioux reservation and attended the New York School of Art. He worked in advertising during the 1920s and began his comic book career in 1942, working for titles like True Comic through the Funnies Inc studio. In the late 1940s he was present in several of the crime and western titles published by D.S. Publishing and Hillman Periodicals. For Gilberton's Classics Illustrated series, he drew Howard Pyle's 'Men of Iron' and Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Master of Ballantrae' in 1951. He eventually became a book illustrator and painter. He participated in the first Modern Art exhibit.