than 5,000 cartoons and sketches burned in the April 1987 fire, but a few weeks later Guindon learned that Irv Letofsky, Sunday editor of the Los Angeles Times "Calendar" section, had saved a copy of every Guindon cartoon syndicated over a decade. In 1988, Guindon broke out of the single-panel mold and began a multi-panel comic strip, The Carp Chronicles, commenting, "Nothing ever works out in Carp City. I don't know why. They're very nice people. It's not a pretty story, but it has to be told." Guindon announced his retirement in 2005 and lived in Northern Michigan in the village of Suttons Bay in his later years. Guindon died in Northport, Michigan, on February 27, 2022, at the age of 86. Bibliography Guindon's cartoons have been collected in several books: Guindon (Minneapolis Tribune, 1977), Cartoons by Guindon (Putnam's/Quick Fox, 1980), The World According to Carp (Andrews McMeel, 1983), Together Again (Andrews McMeel, 1986) Michigan So Far (Detroit Free Press, 2003) References External links The Realist Archive Project The Richard Guindon official site, archived from the original on 11 May 2018. The Education of a Comics Artist: Visual Narrative in Cartoons, Graphic Novels, and Beyond by Michael Patrick Dooley and Steven Heller "Richard Guindon, quirky and satirical former Free Press cartoonist, dies at 86," by Patty LaNoue Stearns, Feb. 28, 2022, Detroit Free Press 1935 births 2022 deaths American comic strip cartoonists American comics artists American humorists Artists from Saint Paul, Minnesota University of Minnesota alumni