JOSEPH LYNCH





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Designer and illustrator from Melbourne, Australia. Making comics, and design for film. 

Currently working on a documentary here.

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Comics
Maria, 2026

90 pages

A black-comedy / psychodrama about an art gallery security guard. Launched at Melbourne Alternative Comics Expo in October 2026.





Graphic Design Book Covers, 2026

Ongoing.

Some cover designs to log my recent reads. I've been enjoying Mexican and Polish literature... 

More to come.





Comics
Slow Apocalypse, (2025-26)

28 pages 

Developed for the Squish Squash ‘Transformation’ group show in Adelaide, S.A.

A short mood-comic exploring an inundated world after climate collapse. The story follows a solitary pair as they navigate a flood-scape populated by displaced flora and fauna. Written for the 'Transformed' group show by Squish Squash in Adeliade, SA, Australia. The comic was displayed at the show as a pair of posters, and launched in print later in the year at Melbourne Alternative Comics Expo.





Graphic DesignBookmarked Literary Arts Festival Identity, 2026

Client: Bookmarked LAF

Logo and key poster design for a micro literary festival in Lander, Wyoming. The festival, which takes place in the fall celebrates local writers with talks, panels and book fairs.





Comics
Prime Meridian, 2024 -

In-development

A longform narrative comics project currently in development. Told over eight chapters, Prime Meridian combines sci-fi with crime fiction and political drama. 

This project draft was thumbnailed in pencil then transposed into Procreate and given preliminary digital inking. The book is currently in its first full draft.





Graphic DesignWho She Is, 2022

Client: Caldera Productions

Poster and Education / Action Guide design and layout for the Heartland Emmy-winning film "Who She Is", a hybrid live-action and animation documentary produced by Wyoming's Caldera Productions.

The film documents five women's stories from within the MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) epidemic in North America. 

From filmmakers Jordan Dresser (Northern Arapaho) and Sophie Barksdale, with animation by Jonathan Thunder (Ojibwe).





Graphic Design
Dagestan, 2025

Poster & Merch Design

A series of designs celebrating the Republic of Dagestan - a region of Russian on the Caspian Sea and home to Russia's oldest city, Derbent. This series explores some of Dagestan's most noteworthy monuments, engineering projects and public figures (like poet Rasul Gamzatov and freedom fighter Imam Shamil).





Graphic Design
Kinfolk Enterprise Impact Report Design and Copywriting, 2021

In-house: Kinfolk Enterprise

An 18-month Impact Report detailing efforts by Kinfolk Enterprise during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kinfolk Enterprise was a food-industry social enterprise that provided job-readiness training for marginalised people and orchestrated a food relief effort during 2020-2021 to support people experiencing family violence.





Illustration
TV Posters - ‘The OA’ & ‘Ad Vitam’, 2020

Illustrated posters for the TV series 'The OA' and 'Ad Vitam', both offbeat speculative fiction dramas with an odd fascination with death.






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