

Richard Guindon decided to become a cartoonist during a three-year stint in the army after high school. His first successful cartoon was of a bearded, nonconformist character named "Hugger Mugger", Syndicated in 100 college newspapers. During the sixties Guindon worked for the Realist in New York and made a name for himself as an underground cartoonist. His cartoons also appeared in Esquire, Playboy, The Nation, and other men's magazines and jazz publications. He then settled into drawing a daily cartoon panel for the Minneapolis Tribune and stayed for eleven years until 1979. Today Guindon lives in a Detroit suburb and draws for the Detroit Free Press. He is syndicated nationally in over seventy major newspapers including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times. Guindon's previous bokks, Guindon(1977) and Cartoons by Guindon(1980), have sold more than 60,000 copies.
Richard Guindon decided to become a cartoonist during a three-year stint in the army after high school. His first successful cartoon was of a bearded, nonconformist character named "Hugger Mugger", Syndicated in 100 college newspapers. During the sixties Guindon worked for the Realist in New York and made a name for himself as an underground cartoonist. His cartoons also appeared in Esquire, Playboy, The Nation, and other men's magazines and jazz publications. He then settled into drawing a daily cartoon panel for the Minneapolis Tribune and stayed for eleven years until 1979. Today Guindon lives in a Detroit suburb and draws for the Detroit Free Press. He is syndicated nationally in over seventy major newspapers including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times. Guindon's previous bokks, Guindon(1977) and Cartoons by Guindon(1980), have sold more than 60,000 copies.