Complex sentence: With the Wood Studio as a launching pad, Reese became a prolific freelancer during the 1970s, illustrating for a wide variety of publications, from underground comics to such slick magazines as "National Lampoon" and "Esquire".
Split into simpler sentences: With the Wood Studio as a launching pad, Reese became a prolific freelancer. During the 1970s, Reese artwork surfaced in a wide variety of publications, from underground comics to such slick magazines as "National Lampoon" and "Esquire".