sentences:  He then taught English for three years until choosing to devote himself full-time to illustration.For a time, Tripp's ex-wife Marcy ran a publishing house, Sparhawk Books, that published two of his books, "Wallace Tripp's Wurst Seller" and an illustrated edition of Hilaire Belloc's "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts".During the 1980s, Tripp worked on an animation project with Richard Purdom's British studio.