Mike Lynch is a cartoonist whose work can be seen in Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...

, The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

, Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

and other mass media

Mass media

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 markets.

Career

As a child he lived in many places in the Midwest and was the Art Editor for a high-school newspaper. In college he drew a cartoon strip for the university paper. Then he moved to New York and became a college administrator. He illustrated a book, Classical Music for Beginners, and drew the cover for Chamber Music Magazine. He spent five years working as a graphic artist for companies like Goldman Sachs and Deloitte & Touche.

Clients

His cartoons have appeared in Barron's, Harvard Business Review, The New York Daily News, Prospect, Punch, The Spectator, The Funny Times, First for Women, Chronicle of Higher Education and Brandweek.

Societies

He is the National Representative for the National Cartoonists Society

National Cartoonists Society

The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops...

, and Chair of the National Cartoonists Society Long Island Chapter aka the "Berndt Toast Gang". He is also a member of the Freelancers Union

Freelancers Union

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