His work for Archie Comics includes variously writing, penciling and/or inking stories in roughly a dozen issues of Betty and Me, Archie and Me and other titles in the mid-1980s. He drew and in some cases scripted the first seven issues of Jughead (August 1987 - August 1988), and was the primary writer-penciler, and occasionally inker, of Jughead's Pal Hot Dog (Jan.-Oct. 1990). For Marvel Comics, Butler worked on the licensed series Heathcliff, for the publisher's Star Comics imprint, and inked an issue of Barbie in 1996.