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cartoonist, began drawing for the Bulletin in 1981. It became his major outlet and he had cartoons in it weekly throughout the 1980s signed with his signature bandicoot. Seventeen original cartoons drawn for the Bulletin dated 27 April 1982, 26 June, 31 July, 18 September 1984, 16 July 1985 + n.d., including a cartoon about MacDonald’s restaurants, are at ML PXD 739 (information PICMAN).

Lynch contributed to Playboy and Penthouse as well as to many other Australian magazines and newspapers, e.g. the Australian , the Australian Financial Review , the Sunday Telegraph and most recently the Brisbane Courier Mail . His anthology Can’t You Bastards Read? Everything you never wanted to know about nuclear warfare (Orin Books, St Kilda West Vic., 1986) contains some good sick jokes, e.g. “Gosh, Kevin… you must’ve grown a foot since I last saw you!” [kid with foot coming out of his head, thanks to nuclear tests] (ill. Lindesay 1994, 76); the post-nuclear last man and woman (man wearing a 'proud to be gay’ T-shirt); a woman complaining about a smoking neighbour ruining her post-nuclear health.

An extremely prolific cartoonist whose cartoons are distinguished by their wit and relevance, in 1987 Lynch published Just Another Bicentenary: an irreverent look at Australia’s first [sic] 200 years (St Kilda Vic.: Orin Books, 1987), a chronological survey that begins with a few Captain Cook/ Aboriginal jokes. He also published How Green Is My Planet? (St Kilda, Orin Books, 1990; revised edn 1998) endorsed by Spike Milligan and David Suzuki and, with Latife Hayson and Lisa Tiver, Mobile madness: a guide to mobile phone etiquette (Frenchs Forest, New Holland, 1997). A member of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club, he has won numerous awards since 1986, including Best Comic Strip 1998, National Cartoon of the Year 1997 and 1991, Best Political Cartoon 1997 and 1993.

Lynch was living at Bronte, Sydney, in 1994. In June 1998 he and his wife Jennifer had a 7 month-old son, Patrick Darcy Lynch. He also owns and runs a French crêperie in Paddington.

Cartoons include: (devil indicating a room full of smokers to a new arrival who is inspecting the band next door) 'That’s Purgatory, Hell’s over here!’ ink on paper original used in the 1991 'Quit’ campaign (ML PxD672) and reproduced in Quit book; (Aboriginal and white Ace Oil man arguing over land) “...I’ll Toss You”/ “You’re on!”/ (2nd frame with the latter sailing through the air) “Where do they find these galahs?” Bulletin 12 March 1985.

Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1996

Last updated:

2007