Complex sentence: As the Depression worsened, Hogarth relocated to New York at the urging of friends, and found employment with King Features Syndicate in 1934, drawing Charles Driscoll's pirate adventure "Pieces of Eight" (1935).
Split into simpler sentences: As the Depression worsened, Hogarth relocated to New York at the urging of friends. He soon found employment with King Features Syndicate in 1934, drawing Charles Driscoll's pirate adventure "Pieces of Eight" (1935).