Some friends took me to a storefront in east Saint Paul, owned by Dick's mother, where he had painted the walls black, put candles in old bottles, and installed a hi-fi and a toaster oven for heating frozen pizza.
Guindon's most ubiquitous cartoon character was a student he called Huggermugger, who went around with bushy hair and a long beard, wearing a lab coat that was held together by a giant safety pin.
An undergraduate woman in bohemian attire sits down next to him, and tells him, for the next two panels, how glad she is that he is there; how much she appreciates sharing her space with a kindred spirit, so au-courant, so genteel, so perceptive, just like her.
"[2]Living in New York City during the early 1960s, Guindon began contributing to The Nation, Playboy, Esquire and Down Beat.
[3] Guindon's best-known work from the 1960s was published in The Realist, which included adult-themed references to politics and current events.
The syndication of the panel appears to have ended in 1985, but the cartoon may have survived as a feature of the Detroit Free Press until later, perhaps 1987.
Guindon announced his retirement in 2005[1] and lived in Northern Michigan in the village of Suttons Bay in his later years.