Mike Lynch
@mikelynchcartoons
Clients worldwide. Natl Cartoonists Society. Jack Davis Award. NH Teaching Artist. NEC Adjunct.
The garden as of mid-July. We are getting the orange, cloudy sky the past couple of days due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. Zucchini is a little slow for now, and very few cucumbers. But soon, the cucumbers, peppers, zucchini will start churning out more and more. #gardening
A grand time at this month’s #BerndtToastGang luncheon where chapter chair Adrian Sinnott rcvd the Tim Rosenthal award. My thx to Karen Evans, Johnny Sampson, & Ray Alma for asking me if I would, as former BTG Chair, come down from New England & present it to him. It was my honor. #berndttoastgang
A 1970s Yankee Doodles lunchbox based on a same name bicentennial themed comic strip. As Allan Holtz writes: “Given that Americans aren't all that keen on ridiculing the founding fathers, the gags could often veer from tepid to mildly offensive.” strippersguide.blogspot.com/2013/01/obsc...
Putting in alfalfa meal, bone meal, kelp meal & garden lime to refresh raised beds. Burying a couple of metal colanders with fresh compost in each bed. It was 29 degrees last night - too early to plant. The trillium & periwinkle don’t care. They r happily blooming away. #garden
Many happy returns to my Dad on what would be his 89th birthday today. He's been gone over a year and is dearly missed.
I tend to not post sketchbook drawings. A sketchbook is to try things out and make a mess and not worry about whether something is "good" or "bad." Anyway, here are a few drawings from my sketchbook, some good, some bad. Much more here: mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2026/04/some...
Frank Godwin’s comic strip Connie, about an adventurous female reporter & detective, ran from 1927 to 1944. There have been a few collections of the dailies, but for the 1st time, Classic Comics Press is working on it. mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2026/03/clas... #frankgodwin #newspapercomics
Another inch or two of snow. Just enough to shovel, clear the car and the feeders. I put out fresh seed, mealworms and suet. Tonight: ice and snow and rain. #newengland #winter
Brr. Cold, snowy, but still beautiful on the coast of Maine. Not that we lasted long sitting out here! #Maine #crescentbeach
You can't do fat jokes. They're demeaning. Except when it's a hippo-on-hippo fat shaming incident. So ... it's OK for animals to be nasty. At least it was OK enough for Reader's Digest to decide to purchase & run in its magazine & in a book collection. Those r some catty hippos. #mikelynchcartoons
Tonight’s viewing. The kippered herring, another little snoop, send up the captain’s lunch, the Punch and Judy and Googie Show, Thelma Todd … so much fun. #MarxBrothers
The view from my studio window. Only got about a half foot of snow. Enough to make everything look all wintry!
The sky over Boston (last night) and the Delta Vega lithium cracking station from Star Trek (1966). #startrek
Selling $10 postpaid in continental US: Bennett Cerf’s Pop-Up Silliest Riddles, a 1967 Random House hardcover. Some wear but intact and the pop-ups work. Fun graphics, but uncredited. Leave message in comments to claim. #bennettcerf #midcenturymodern #illustration #vintagechildrensbooks
Selling: More Jokes and Riddles, a 1963 midcentury hardcover beauty with pictures by Albert Aquino. $9 postpaid in US. Comment to claim.
Good advice for us all! Have a wonderful weekend. Here’s a pic of a sweet bumblebee in out zinnias.
SELLING: “Tony and the Tree House” by Edna Walker Chandler, illustrations by Don Chandler. First edition, 1963. Hard to find children’s book with grand UPA-inspired midcentury modern illustrations. Some crayon marks on end pages. Intact. Asking $15 plus postage. DM me. First to claim it gets it.
Selling: “My Father Can Fix Anything” by Mabel Watts, illustrations by midcentury greats Bonnie & Bill Rutherford. Whitman Big Tell-a-Tale published 1965. Some wear here & there, some staple have rust. Complete, grand example of children’s book illustration. $10 postpaid in US. Claim in comments.
It’s #internationalcatday or #catday or something. Or #caturday. These are our beloved sweet floofs: Tank, Ferg and Ched. #cats
Thursday night: Fergus with his mighty multi-toe paw wrestles me for the remote. #polydactylcat #catsofinstagram