Complex sentence: He was employed as an illustrator and cartoonist by New Zealand's largest daily newspaper the "New Zealand Herald" for three years, but for the last twenty years he's been pretending to work from home as a comic strip artist.
Split into simpler sentences: He was employed as an illustrator and cartoonist by New Zealand's largest daily newspaper the New Zealand Herald for three years. But for the last twenty years he's been pretending to work from home as a comic strip artist.