Monday, January 31, 2011
WEEKEND WRAP UP
Here are some more flicks from the Grand National Roadster Show over the weekend that our friends Jae and Stephanie Bueno took..
Mike Lynch Things to Buy
Here a few books, calendars and minicomics that showcase my cartoons and are available for purchase now.Above: the Barnes & Noble Cat Cartoon a Day calendar, edited by Sam Gross, with Feggo's great gag on the cover. The Barnes & Noble Cat Cartoon a Day and Dog Cartoon a Day calendars, edited by the one and only S. Gross, can be ordered online. I had previously said that they were not. I was
White Mountains, NH, January 29, 2011
My wife and I drove to the White Mountain National Park on Saturday. It's just over an hour from our home. Here are a few photos from the high vantage point of the Pemigewasset Overlook.The overlook is about in the middle of the the Kancamagus Highway, which runs for about 34 miles from Conway To Lincoln. Photo by Stacy Lynch.The shelter at the overlook, looking over a trail.The Pemi overlook
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Shit Ventriloquist Cartoon.
I had the idea for this cartoon really early in the week. Just needed to find time between contributing towards the Vets Maserati with personal plates fund, and taking official ownership of Riley. Lots of Gottle in this week contest. The theme was set as Ventriloquist. Another word I can't believe I can spell without help from the spell checker. It's a Scottish thing.
Friday, January 28, 2011
DAY 1
Its Day 1 of the Grand National Roadster Show... This is just a preview of what you have to look forward to if you are coming out this weekend.
Jesus' Corporate Job Interview by Mike Lynch
Jesus goes for a job interview. It does not go well. Click below to supersize.Below is the rough, from my sketchbook.The final version is very close to the rough, with the exception of the last panel. I thought that the devil does not need to offer a suitcase full of money. the devil will be attractive on his own merits.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Jack Cole's BOY'S LIFE Gag Cartoons
I didn't know that Jack Cole did gag cartoons in the 1930s for BOY'S LIFE. Blogger Paul Tumey at Cole's Comics gives us some history and samples.
Robert Day
The Hairy Green Eyeball 2 blog scans in a bunch of Robert Day's gag cartoons for your enjoyment.
Video: Jerry Craft
Jerry Craft, who creates the comic strip MAMA'S BOYZ, is interviewed by Brandon James Marcel.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Video: Liza Donnelly: Drawing upon humor for change
Liza Donnelly talks about the power of humor in this recent TED talk: Liza Donnelly's bio at TED.
James Kochalka: Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont
Photo of James Kochalka nicked from Wired.Congratulations to James Kochalka, the new (and first ever) Cartoonist Laureate of the state of Vermont.Above from Mr. Kochalka's site American Elf.Via James Armitage of Digital Spy:Best known as the creator of American Elf, the artist and writer has also produced various Top Shelf works including SuperF**kers, Johnny Boo and Dragon Puncher.Kochalka is a
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
SHOW OF ALL SHOWS
Its that time of year again and we are getting ready for the show! Get your tickets and come out and support the Kustom Culture..
Disney/Pixar's UP! the 1965 "Pre-make"
What if the movie UP! was made in 1965?Hat tip to Drawn!This is just one of a series of "Premakes" by Whoiseyevan.Related: THE AVENGERS 1952 Premake.
REPLY ALL by Donna A. Lewis
Donna A. Lewis has a new comic strip, "Reply All," launching from the Washington Post Writers Group.Brigid Alverson at Robot 6 notes:"Scott Kurtz welcomed Donna to the world of professional cartooning by slamming her art."Ugh.To his credit, Kurtz apologized with a "I'm sorry if my comments hurt your feelings in any way."But Donna A. Lewis is not deterred:"I love this forum because you guys make
Monday, January 24, 2011
Video: 2006 STAR TREK KFC Commercial
Kirk, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov and an unnamed Red Shirt are all here in this live action commercial for Kentucky Fired Chicken. Although it was shown in 2006, this is the first time I've seen it, much less ever heard of it. Let me know if you ever saw it.Shatner, Doohan, Nichols, Takei and Koenig lend their voices, as we watch other actors who act eerily like them in the 1960s, mouth their
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Check out this sleeve on a client who came in and wanted to add to the portrait he already had.
The Value of Sketching
Above: a study in contrasts. A kid enjoying a ride on sullen Dad's shoulders at the mall. This was draw in in about six seconds.I was at the mall, bored outta my mind. And then I recalled that I could draw the shoppers passing by for a while. Ahh! Now, that's entertainment.When sketching in public, my one rule is DON'T. I mean, really, the last thing you want to do is get caught drawing people
"Let It @*!#" by Stephanie Piro
Sick and tired of winter? So is my pal cartoonist Stephanie Piro who blogs about Winter in NH with a comic titled "Let It @*!#."
Sunday, January 23, 2011
This time I did it quicker, but is it any better?
I re-drew the cartoon from today's contest. Not allowed to post it of course, but this time took a lot less time, if you know what I mean. The colour version took ages to be honest, and I was not happy with the end results of the drawing, so this took me literally no time at all (well, OK - about 10 minutes, if that). The colour version wouldn't be any good for marketing anyway, as very few
Just Deserts.
This week's contest was set by last weeks winner, Roger Kettle. The theme was "Desert Island". Wide open this week. I like to think I've stuck to the traditional approach to the themed contests, and not used some witty caption to win a crackerjack pencil, but all the others have cheated (with a few exceptions!). It's a classic cliché for cartoonists. I could have saved myself a lot of time and
SOUL SUNDAY
Brenton Wood (born Alfred Jesse Smith, July 26, 1941, Shreveport, Louisiana)[1] is an American singer and songwriter, best known for his two 1967 hit singles: "The Oogum Boogum Song" and "Gimme Little Sign".When Wood was a child his family moved west to San Pedro in Los Angeles, California. He attended San Pedro High School for part of his freshman year before moving toCompton. In his high school
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
ALLEY OOP: 1957 Time Travel Sequence
Caveman Alley Oop was time traveling for years before DOCTOR WHO and decades before Marty McFly. The Hairy Green Eyeball blog shares a long time travel story (February 13 - May 2, 1957) wherein Mr. Oop " goes back to the South before the Civil War, meets and runs afoul of gambler Texas Jack East, wins a riverboat and loses it ...."
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Morning After the "Wintry Mix" January 20, 2011
A bit of the backyard, with the snow clinging to every tree limb like powdered sugar.Dawn coming up. You can see a bit of the path I dug to get to the backyard bird feeder area.The long driveway on the right of the photo. Lookit that snow on the trees. So pretty.The front yard, with the snowed in perennial garden in foreground. You can just make out the feeders as well.This is about 7am. Sunrise
THE FILM THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Richard Kelly on Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL
Movie City News provides an excerpt from THE FILM THAT CHANGED MY LIFE by Robert K. Elder. The book asks filmmakers about the movie that impacted them most.Among the thirty equally appealing conversations, Kevin Smith talks Slacker; Danny Boyle, Apocalypse Now; Atom Egoyan, Persona; John Woo, Mean Streets; Frank Oz, Touch of Evil; Rian Johnson, Annie Hall; and Steve James, Harlan County U.S.A. In
MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER #15, August 1966
The Gold Key Comics Blog scans in an entire issue of MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER. With art by the late, great Russ Manning (and a script by Herb Castle), this was one of the MAGNUS comics I owned as a kid.Magnus was a big beefy guy -- a square jawed hero-type who had a brilliant mind and a fierce uppercut. When the servant robots got out of control, which happened every issue, he was the man to knock '
THROWBACK THURSDAY
Here is something new for Throwback Thursdays. Every now and then we are going to be breaking down samples that are used in new records...Today we are showing you the sample from Empire State of Mind.The Sample was used on Alicia Keys piano solo from The Moments "Love on a two way Street"piano solo.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Video: Arnold Roth
Veteran illustrator Arnold Roth talks with Bob Teitelman (Editor-in-Chief) and Larry Gendron (Art Director) about creating his fantastic year-end cover to The Deal magazine. Related: a gallery of Arnie Roth's The Deal covers here.
Video: Zapiro Draws
South African editorial cartoonist "Zapiro" draws "our most famous person" in a Capetown scene.These are my favorite kind of videos: where we see drawing in real time. No speeding up, no "Benny Hill" music in the backgroung, y'know? Now, so far as I can tell (and I could be mistaken), Zapiro doesn't pencil. He just dives right in with a felt tip on a piece of typing paper. He is, if you know
2011 Mike Lynch Projects
Above: Mike Lynch by Mike Lynch. A self portrait of me from an old sketchbook, six years before I quit my regular day job to become a full-time freelance cartoonist. Notice the hunched shoulders. Ugh. What a time that was.Anyway ...Happy Birthday, Mike LynchToday is my birthday!On this self-congratulatory day, I'm going with that theme, and telling you about some Mike Lynch projects out there.You
Piers Baker: Life in Syndication Year 3
Detail from Sunday's "Ollie and Quentin." Entire strip here.My friend Piers Baker talks about year 3 of his syndicated comic strip "Ollie and Quentin." Aside from some fascinating shop talk (for instance, saving time by converting his pencils into linework using Adobe Illustrator), Piers writes about his own personal terrible event of 2010:"Last summer my relationship of 27 years with the mother
FAMILY FIRST
Here is a piece on a client who came in to add his girls names to tie in the warrior he got a while back..
Monday, January 17, 2011
TREASURE CHEST Comics: "This Godless Communism" by Reed Crandall
TREASURE CHEST, the long-running Catholic comic book (1946-1972), began an ambitious three issue series in 1961-62 titled "This Godless Communism."Illustrated by comics great Reed Crandall, it painted a potential future world where communists blew up the Washington Monument, outlawed home ownership and forced the women folk to leave home and work! The Easily Mused blog gives us "This Godless
SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 25
Here's the last batch of gag cartoons from the SATURDAY EVENING POST scrapbook. And a grand batch it is!My thanks to Kristin Cawood for giving me this large scrapbook of 1950s gag cartoons to share! Thanks, Kristin!The SATURDAY EVENING POST 1950s gag cartoons blog entries:SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 1SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 2SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 3SATURDAY
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Mike Lynch Cartoon in January 15, 2011 WALL STREET JOURNAL
"Billy's opinions do not reflect the view of the Andersons, their affiliates or subsidiaries."The nice thing about having my cartoon in the Weekend Edition of the Wall Street Journal is that it tends to be read more casually than the daily. It's thicker and there are more feature articles. It tends to be taken home to be consumed in a more leisurely fashion (by more people). So ... more readers
Just when you thought you'd seen it all....
This week's entry in the caption contest. It's actually the second cartoon I drew for it, but I'm only allowed to enter one cartoon. I'll post the other cartoon when the contest closes on Monday evening.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Young Avengers Wallpaper
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Studio 360 Video: Doonesbury Speaks
Studio 360 has the Doonesbury characters speak.After 40 years, cartoonist Garry Trudeau is still writing the Doonesbury comic strip. To celebrate, we gave voices to some of the strip's iconic characters. Listen to Kurt talk with Trudeau about his views on war and how the comic has changed over the past four decade.
THE ADVENTURES OF BRAINS BENTON by Tom Gill
Above art by Tom Gill.The BRAINS BENTON MYSTERIES was a series of juvenile fiction books published by Golden Books from 1959 to 1961. Charles Spain Verral wrote the first volume, and handled the outline and rewrites for the remaining books (even though they are credited with the pseudonym George Wyatt). Silver age comic book artist Tom Gill's connection with Brains comes a few years later.Above:
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 24
Some more great SATURDAY EVENING POST gag cartoons from the 1950s (with an occasional COLLIER'S one too).My thanks to Kristin Cawood for giving me this large scrapbook of 1950s gag cartoons to share! Thanks, Kristin!The SATURDAY EVENING POST 1950s gag cartoons blog entries:SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 1SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 2SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 3SATURDAY
Mort Gerberg Tonight
Tonight at the Mid-Manhattan Library, Mort Gerberg will share the stories behind the drawings in his latest book, “Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement and the Great Beyond.”He’ll also participate in a Q&A and draw improvised cartoons based on suggestions from the audience. Other cartoonists from the magazine may be on hand.Mid-Manhattan Library, 40th St at Fifth Ave., 6th floor, Jan
Clay Jones (and Ed Stein): Editorial Cartoon Process
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones show us his preliminary sketches and finish for his recent editorial cartoon "Shouting Match.""I got this idea from all the phone calls I received today. My editor transferred five and I think one sounded unhappy. The rest were angry, screaming even. Editorial cartoonist Ed Stein wrote about editorial cartooning in a hyper-partisanship climate. Ed’s column
Chinese Cartoonist Xiao Bai Wins Japan's International Manga Award
© 2010 XIAO BAI / KANAVia Asia-Pacific News:Tokyo - A Chinese cartoonist captured the top prize in this year's International Manga Award contest hosted by the Japanese government to honour artists abroad, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. Xiao Bai's gold award-wining comic titled 'Si loin et si proche' (So far and so near), features a Chinese first-year female university student
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
NCS Division Awards - Call for Entries
From the National Cartoonists Society:It’s time to prepare your entry for the National Cartoonists Society Division Awards. Below, you will see the list of the juries which will judge the categories, the jury chair and the address to which you will send your entry. Please remember only recent work can be considered. This means work published between the dates of December 1, 2009 and December 31,
TOONERVILLE TROLLEY by Fontaine Fox
Bhob Stewart's Potrzebie blog (one of my favorite blogs) shows us, in Fontaine Fox's own words, how he (Mr. Fox) came up the the name TOONERVILLE TROLLEY.
A cartoon that I forgot to post.
I forgot to post this cartoon in last weeks cartoon caption contest. Had it all drawn and ready to go, and then missed the deadline. How stupid of me! Never mind. At least posting it on here I'll be able to witness the strange phenomena of Feedburner numbers going down every time I post something on here. 107 readers at the moment, but strangely this will now drop to about 70 for a while.
THE ARCANGEL
Here is one of Michael "The ArcAngel" for all of you walking through the shadow of death...
Monday, January 10, 2011
SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 23
Here's some more SATURDAY EVENING POST gag cartoons from the 1950s (with an occasional COLLIER'S one too).My thanks to Kristin Cawood for giving me this large scrapbook of 1950s gag cartoons to share! Thanks, Kristin!The SATURDAY EVENING POST 1950s gag cartoons blog entries:SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 1SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 2SATURDAY EVENING POST Scrapbook Part 3SATURDAY
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Latest Fashion Korean Style Lovely Tops D2260 Grey Wholesale
Latest Fashion Korean Style Lovely Tops D2260 Grey Wholesale
Latest Fashion Korean Style Lovely Tops D2260 Grey Wholesale
Latest Fashion Korean Style Lovely Tops D2260 Grey Wholesale
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Snow
Snow is predicted for Northern New England, and here's Don Tobin with an appropriate gag cartoon from COLLIER'S for the occasion.Like Walt Kelly and Hank Ketcham, Dan Tobin worked in animation for the Disney studios, until the 1941 strike. He began a successful magazine cartooning career. He created a newspaper cartoon panel for King Features titled "The Little Woman" in 1953.Tobin lived in
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