These are two cartoons drawn by long-time Cartoonist Mike Lynch inspired by the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy movie “Desk Set.” The 1957 romantic comedy movie was based on replacing man or “women” in this case with a machine.

Katharine Hepburn as Bunny Watson does her best to stand up to Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy) and his machine. A scene where the duo is eating lunch in chilly conditions up on a roof top is priceless. Tracy comes up with numerical problems to solve and Watson answers them all in a New York minute, much to Sumner’s chagrin.

Lynch’s first cartoon on the upper left shows a machine now replaced by a computer. The other cartoon to the upper right shows the sprawling philodendron plant that Watson had in her office in the movie, from time to time she would water it. I noticed the plant when seeing the movie, but now that Lynch has brought it to my attention again I see it in a much funnier light.

Lynch tells me he’s a big fan of Hepburn, infact he has most of the Hepburn-Tracy movies on DVD. He did not know about The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center until our correspondence. He has graciously agreed to link to the theater on his site. Thanks Mike.

Lynch is the National Cartoonists Society National Representative and his clients include Reader’s Digest, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and the New York Daily News.

See you at “The Kate”
Ann Nyberg, Trustee, KHCAC

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