2014-07-07
Today’s guest cartoonist is Mike Lynch. Mike Lynch’s clients include Reader’s Digest, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, St. Martin’s Press, Random House, McGraw Hill, Mad Magazine and many others. Mike has spearheaded the “Oscars of cartooning” as the Award Coordinator for the annual National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Awards. He writes the popular Mike Lynch Cartoons blog on the business of cartooning, one of the most recognized and trafficked comic art industry sites on the Web. Check out his work at
Ah, so *that’s* where I left Gorgoth…
Wait, that’s your Gorgoth? Phew, I thought mine had escaped.
Gorgoth just has to understand. The first alien invasion is a big deal and possibly gets you panicky 1930s radio broadcasts. The 100th one not so much. And by the time you get to a certain point past 1000 everybody knows that all they have to do is hunker down and wait a few days and the Earth germs will just finish you off. 🙂
Is that what happened to the shapeshifting invaders from planet Cybertron?
Dunno where all of them are, but one is running the 7-11 out here.
Not just any giant metal gorilla, but a giant metal gorilla with fishnets and heavy eye shadow.
Probably has jackboots and a wardrobe heavy on the leather and PVC too. Never take the title “The Dominator” if you can’t dress the part.
I thought Gorgoth was a Scandinavian black metal band.
That would be Gorgoroth, I believe.
Gotham has the Bat Signal.
Ohio has to make do with the Jack Signal.
It’s not quite the same/
That name to ME conjures something gigantic. Probably a lizard man like (Mongor?) from Helen Sr’s amazon lair (the Agent Artie arc).
The alternative would be something small and cute, mutated w/ a huge brain (probably exposed) with an inferiority complex.
(TUNE: “The Great Pretender”, The Platters)
Oh, I’ll dominate the living!
I’m GORGOTH, the ruler of all!
Your doom you’ll meet
In this field of wheat …
I’m ten tons and twenty feet tall!
Oh, I’ll dominate the living!
I’ll soon be the master of you!
You can’t refuse,
‘Cause it’s in the news!
It’s printed, so it must be true!
You bet
I’m a threat!
Not somebody’s lost pet!
You fool!
I will rule!
’Cause I’m really Old School!
Oh, I’ll dominate the living!
My triumph will now come to pass!
I’m made of tin,
And I’m sure to win!
I’ll take names and then kick some @$$!
(Unless I should run out of gas!)
Ah, they must be in Shaker Heights, where an ordinance was passed banning cell towers for no apparent reason, other than “we didn’t know that you can disguise a cell tower, but we’re too lazy to actually repeal it.”
Wait, you can disguise a cell phone tower?
National parks and such huge empty vastnesses as the Serengeti and Sahara all have very good cell phone coverage. Partly because you don’t need too many towers to serve a low-population with nothing to block the signal, also because they’re filled with towers looking like trees, mounds, shrubs, and so on. Once you “know” what they look like, it can be a fun game to spot the tower….By seeing exactly the same tree in 5 different national parks 😉
Or the “tree” that is five times as tall as the rest of the forest.
I saw one in Hawaii made up to look like a palm tree. Not entirely convincingly, obviously.
“Gorgoth the Dominator?” Sounds like a friend of Nick’s.
Oh, so he’s a dom. Huh.
Given Nicks ongoing ‘anything you ask’ relationship to a woman with a severe haircut and license to perform invasive procedures, I’d say no. . .
He’s actually a really nice guy once you get to know him.
And now for something completely different . . .
Okay, got it. THEY are going to get us accustomed to giant metal gorillas. Some of which will secretly be cell phone towers. What diabolical subtlety.
I guess Mike Lynch is proof that you don’t need to be a good artist to be successful with comics.