Mike Lynch Cartoon in the July-August 2012 Harvard Business Review

Above is my cartoon from this summer's issue of HBR.

You can see my salute to Jack Kirby's machinery in the inking of that helium canister, right?

This one sold very quickly and I was told how much "everyone liked it." Always nice to hear that. This was part of a batch of 10 or so cartoons I had sent. I thought it was maybe "medium funny," but HBR differed.

Fine by me.

How's That GHOST RIDER Protest Going?

Marvel is suing the man who created its GHOST RIDER property, Gary Friedrich, for $17,000. The movie opened this weekend. For the background on this, please take a look here. You may give to Gary Friedrich here.

Conversation I had Friday at the bank. Maybe I should change banks. That's me in the circle there:

You may give to Gary Friedrich here.

Ink and watercolor on butcher's paper.

Love Cartoons

Here are a few cartoons I've drawn about love. Dating cartoons, love cartoons, marriage cartoons. courting cartoons, lover's quarrel cartoons, married cartoons, penguin love, people loving people, spousal love spats, geriatric love, urban love ...

 Above: a cartoon from Reader's Digest. The penguin in love with a bowling pin cartoon is the one I use on my business card.

"I look forward to growing old with you. It's the maintenance I hate."

I actually said this while jogging along Pacific Street in Brooklyn. Every once in a while I say something that becomes a cartoon. The fact I remembered it, drew it up and sent it out is a testament to my concentration. Usually when I say something funny, it disappears into the ether. I forget it. The cartoon was published in the Wall Street Journal.

"Breaking up is hard to do. So how 'bout I just send an e-mail?"

"I won't know how I really feel about him til I hack into his Netflix queue."

"This is all very romantic, but I can't see my fork."

"I accept. But there may be some monitoring for quality assurance."

"If you get half the closet for shoes, then I get a drawer for my old rock concert t-shirts."

"Do you know I haven't eaten a pie tip since before we were married?"

"I converted all our old love letters to text messages."

"Let's quit this exhausting dating routine and get married all ready."

"I'd be glad to accept your invitation to come in cutie -- if your kids have grown up and left."

"Why do all my inner demons look like you?"

"I'm emotional. It's just that yours scare mine into hiding."

"We're in the tub together. But not like it used to be."

"Remember when we were young and fancy free -- back before everything had to have coasters under it?"

"No, you're not interrupting a damn thing. We're just having our usual argument about who came first."

Mike Lynch Cartoon in November 2011 FUNNY TIMES

I have a cartoon in the new issue of FUNNY TIMES. It accompanies an article by Roz Warren about divorce.

 

 I always liked the above gag. It's an old one.

I drew it in January 2005, but it was rejected by the major national markets (New Yorker, Harvard Business review, Barron's), It found a home in a corporate newsletter in the US, and in Prospect Magazine (UK), I sent it to Funny Times in 2009, where it waited in a drawer until the topic of divorce came up.

Mike Lynch Cartoon in November 2011 READER'S DIGEST

I have a cartoon in this month's Reader's Digest.

 

It's for their "Off Base" section, which focuses on military life.

OK, above is the cartoon I sent and below is the cartoon as it's printed in the November 2011 issue.  This is my own opinion, but I think it's more successful when vertical, like my original submission above, than horizontal like below. But maybe that's just me.

The cartoon was drawn on typing paper with a Micron Pigma marker. I used a kids' watercolor paint set for the colors. I wanted to get a watercolory feel using PhotoShop, but after about ten minutes fooling around with that, I went old school style. After it was dry, I tweaked the colors a bit in PhotoShop.

READER'S DIGEST Cartoons

Still on the stands: the October 2011 "Humor Issue" of Reader's Digest. I have two cartoons in there. I'm in good company, with 16 other cartoonists in a special cartoon section.

Below is one of the two cartoons of mine from that issue. It was a very early sale to the Digest, first seeing the light of print about nine years ago. It's since been reprinted in several places. It's amazing how mean we will let animals be to each other, huh?!

Our Prince Edward Island Vacation

 

My wife and I spent a few days in Prince Edward Island. I told you about the international editorial cartoon exhibition, Freedom in Broad Strokes. Now, below, are some scenes from our trip.

These are color sketches, blown up from my sketchbook. I was doodling and scribbling with no pencil foundation so, you know, it's doodly and messy and all that

TOOL NERD INFO:

• Pen: Micron Pigma 5mm
• Color: a kids' watercolor set from a dimestore

First up: Canadian Maritime Swimwear. It's a bit chilly, but the locals are used to it!

Below: Camping in PEI! Active fun for some, passive smoking for others!

Night time was dark and you could only hear voices and see everyone's campfire. One young girl was thrashing on an old guitar, singing what sounded like folk songs, but, when listening closely, they all turned out to be old Alanis Morissette hits. The middle aged fellow in a Winnebago was visibly smitten, He really did stand at the edge of his site and go "Wooo!"

Some good things and bad things about the trip:

EDIT: "NO BARS" should be on the right and "IRISH BARS" should be on the left. Thanks to Caryn Alma for pointing out my transpositional boo-boo.

"No bars" was probably for the best. My wife played great Irish music with the session players at The Old Triangle. She was in top form!

And here are the actual uncut pages:

Yes, that's the bookmark hanging there on the page. I am a lazy scanner, huh?

Oh, the toe's all better now!

More HE DREW, SHE DREW

More of the HE DREW, SHE DREW jam cartoon about the differences between women and men, drawn by a female and male cartoonist: Stephanie Piro and me, Mike Lynch. More about HDSD here and here.

The fellow in this first one asks, "don't I look cool and youthful in this hoodie?" He looks a bit MAD!

Below: "Do we have to go down EVERY aisle?"

You can see how rough these roughs are what with my scratching out a bit of the dialogue below.

Ready for some more? OK, this time around, Stephanie starts them on the left hand side and I finish 'em with a man's point of view.

Christmas Cartoon

Happy Holidays -- the last Saturday of shopping for December!

Above is a cartoon of mine. It's my most reprinted Christmas cartoon, one of many of my cartoons in Laughter the Best Medicine II, now available for Holiday purchase!