From the late eighties thru early nineties, Doug was a sought after editorial illustrator for Australian Penthouse. He was building his corporate identity and branding firm, Studio Gecko , at the time, so he only produced nine or ten pieces for the world's largest selling men's magazine.

Ode to bankers was a wry article challenging the then tsunami like rise in lending interest rates, which, prophetically heradled the 1987 stock market crash whcih left many sidewalks gummy with the exfenestrated remains of industry brokers and traders.

That loss of such a noble slice of humanity was the source of many a dry eye and several wet gullets around Australia at the time.