Graduate Profile: Brad Guigar
Brad Guigar always dreamed of being a professional cartoonist. His hard work and Alma College education have helped him achieve that goal.
A graphic designer for the Philadelphia Daily News, he also publishes two weekly comics for the paper. Courting Disaster is about love and relationships and Phables is about life in Philadelphia.
In addition, he created a comic strip titled “Greystone Inn” that he self-published on the Web and self-syndicated to newspapers. It ended in July 2005.
Brad Guigar
He now publishes the comic strip “Evil Inc” to the Web and in a number of newspapers. The strip, about a corporation run for and by super-villains, has an average daily Web readership of about 10,000.
He also authored a book on cartooning in 2003 and has self-published six other collections of his various comics. Another book, on Webcomics, and three more comic collections are planned for 2008.
A 1991 graduate, Guigar was drawn to the graphic design portion of the art program. He credits professors there with crafting his program to fit his career goal.
The faculty even brought in Bill Day, at the time a political cartoonist with the Detroit Free Press, to juror Guigar’s senior project.
“After the show, Day gave me some great advice about becoming a cartoonist,” he says. “He advised me to find a small newspaper looking for a newsroom graphic artist. Once I was there, I could submit cartoons on the side. Fifteen years later, I’m still working for a daily newspaper as a graphic artist.”
Attracted to Alma by the small class sizes, Guigar was the staff cartoonist for the Almanian during his time at Alma.
