 After Shansby's graduation, Weingarten asked him to illustrate "Below the Beltway," his humor column in the "Washington Post Magazine".Shansby began drawing weekly cartoons for the magazine in 2004 as a freshman in college, succeeding cartoonist Richard Thompson, who was leaving to launch his comic strip, Cul de Sac.Shansby illustrated the 2014 children’s book "Me & Dog", a parable on atheism written by Weingarten.