Craig MacIntosh

Raised in a career military family in Hawaii, Craig MacIntosh came of age in the 60's explosion of rock-n-roll, surfing, the counter-culture revolution, and Vietnam. After graduating from the University of Illinois with a degree in Fine Arts, he was drafted and served in Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader. Post-war, he began a 24-year newspaper career as an political cartoonist, first in Ohio and then, Minnesota. In 1992, he left journalism to draw the popular syndicated cartoon strip "Sally Forth." He published "The Fortunate Orphans," his first fiction novel in 2009, and retired from cartooning in 2013 to pen seven other books of mystery thrillers with more to come.