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Craig MacIntosh was a newspaper political cartoonist and illustrator for 22 years. He served as an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam. He lives in Minnesota. The Fortunate Orphans is his first novel. Craig MacIntosh was born in Long Beach, California in 1943. His father was a career Navy officer who was a veteran of both the Atlantic and Pacific wartime theaters. His family moved constantly between naval bases on both coasts before settling in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1958. After high school graduation in 1962, MacIntosh enrolled at the University of Illinois and graduated with a degree in Fine Arts in 1966. He was drafted that fall and attended OCS at Ft. Benning, Georgia, where he was commissioned an infantry second lieutenant in January of 1968. He served as a platoon leader with the First Infantry Division-“The Big Red One”. After leaving the army, he began his journalism career as a political cartoonist with the Journal Herald in Dayton, Ohio in 1970. Five years later, he and his wife, Linda, moved with their son and daughter to Minnesota. There he worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star. While there, he and fellow editorial cartoonist Steve Sack, created a syndicate children’s feature, “Doodles,” distributed by Los Angeles based Creators Syndicate. In 1992 he left to pursue a career as the artist for the widely-published cartoon strip “Sally Forth” which now appears in over 600 papers. In addition to his comic strip duties, he began writing fiction. The Fortunate Orphans is his first published novel. Along with writing, he continues painting watercolors as well as creating bronze sculptures. |
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