Richard Gordon Guindon (born December 2, 1935) is an American cartoonist best known for his gag panel, Guindon. Dick Guindon's cartoons have appeared in the Minneapolis Tribune, The Realist and the Detroit Free Press. During the late 1950s, Guindon attended the University of Minnesota where he drew cartoons for The Minnesota Daily, as recalled by Stan Gotlieb:
Living in New York during the early 1960s, Guindon began contributing to The Nation, Pl...
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Richard Gordon Guindon (born December 2, 1935) is an American cartoonist best known for his gag panel, Guindon. Dick Guindon's cartoons have appeared in the Minneapolis Tribune, The Realist and the Detroit Free Press. During the late 1950s, Guindon attended the University of Minnesota where he drew cartoons for The Minnesota Daily, as recalled by Stan Gotlieb:
Living in New York during the early 1960s, Guindon began contributing to The Nation, Playboy, Esquire and Downbeat. He also drew cartoons for Paul Krassner's The Realist and was associated with Krassner's class at the Free School, as recalled by Michael Dooley:
Exiting New York, Guindon returned to Minnesota. Mpls.St.Paul Magazine noted in its "Encyclopedia Minnesotica" that Guindon is "Minnesota's greatest satirist, formerly with the Tribune, now living and working near Detroit. No one's ever done us better. Not Keillor, not even the Coens."
In 1981, Guindon moved from Minnesota to work in Michigan for the Detroit Free Press,...
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