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{{short description|American cartoonist (born 1943)}}
'''Craig MacIntosh''' (born December 28, 1943) is an American [[cartoonist]].  MacIntosh worked on the comic strip ''[[Sally Forth (syndicated strip)|Sally Forth]]'' along with colleague and writer [[Francesco Marciuliano]] until his retirement in 2013. He worked as an editorial cartoonist for the [[Minneapolis Star|Minneapolis Star Tribune]] from 1975 until 1992 and the Dayton Journal Herald from 1970 until 1975.

Craig MacIntosh was born in [[Long Beach, California]]. in 1943. He grew up in a [[United States Navy|Navy]] family and lived on both coasts as a child and considers Honolulu his hometown. He graduated from [[Admiral Arthur W. Radford High School|Radford High School]] in 1962 and went to University of Illinois, graduating in 1966 with degree in Fine Arts.

MacIntosh was drafted that fall and spent three years in the [[U.S. Army]], with the last year in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] as an infantry platoon leader.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} When he returned home, he began work as an editorial cartoonist with the Dayton Journal Herald in Dayton, Ohio.
In 1975, he moved to [[Minneapolis]] to become the editorial cartoonist for the evening Minneapolis Star and then continued with the merged Star and Tribune (now Star Tribune). In 1979–80, he created a strip called "Gunnar" for the local PBS station.  In 1986, he and cartoonist Steve Sack joined to create the children's cartoon feature ''Professor Doodles''. In 1992, he left the paper to work full-time on the syndicated cartoon strip ''Sally Forth'', created by Greg Howard.

He has published two books of drawings of historic buildings in Dayton and Minneapolis.
He is an accomplished watercolor artist.

== Personal life ==
MacIntosh is married, with two adult children.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

== Fiction writing career ==
MacIntosh has also begun writing fiction stories. He has nine books currently published as of the time of this writing -- ''McFadden's War'' (a crime story set in the [[Philippines]]), ''The Last Lightning'' (a [[World War II]] novel),''The Fortunate Orphans'' (another [[World War II]] story), a series of adventures of fictional former Navy Seal Tom Wolf and ''Til Kingdom Key'' ( a Constable Jeremiah McKay mystery set in the Bahamas).
== Biography ==
* ''The Fortunate Orphans'' (2009)
* ''The Last Lightning'' (2013)
* ''McFadden's War'' (2015)
* ''Wolf's Vendetta'' (2015)
* ''Wolf's Inferno'' (2016)
* ''Wolf's Baja'' (2017)
* ''Wolf's Odyssey'' (2019)
* ''Til Kingdom Key'' (2020)
* ''Wolf's Admiral'' (2022)


== See also ==
* [[Sally Forth (Greg Howard comic strip)|Sally Forth]]
* [[Francesco Marciuliano]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.creators.com/comics/doodles.html Doodles on Creators.com]- updated daily
*[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/comics/sforth.html Sally Forth ] - in the Seattle Times

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