Career
Born in Ohio, he spent the majority of his life in Carthage, Missouri. Later, he would write and illustrate The Old Testament Comically Illustrated (1892), and The New Testament Comically Illustrated (1898), which caricature scenes from the Bible. In 1890, Heston published a critique of the involvement of religious clergy in politics, calling for strict separation of church and state.
The Bible Comically Illustrated was published in 1900 by Truth Seeker Company and sold at least 10,000 copies.
Few copies of this book or his earlier works survive, as most were apparently destroyed by those who did not appreciate such blasphemy.