10 Facts About Jay Lynch

Jay Patrick Lynch was an American cartoonist who played a key role in the underground comix movement with his Bijou Funnies and other titles.

Jay Lynch is best known for his comic strip Nard n' Pat and the running gag Um tut sut.

Jay Lynch was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in Belmar, New Jersey, later moving to Florida.

At age 17, Jay Lynch moved to Chicago in 1963, where he attended art school at night and worked a string of odd jobs, including running a service bar for the improv comedy troupe Second City.

Jay Lynch's first published cartoons were for the Roosevelt University humor magazine, the Aardvark; he contributed to a wide range of college humor publications.

Jay Lynch soon graduated to professional humor magazines like Sick, Cracked, and The Realist; and when the underground press movement started in the mid-1960s he became a regular contributor to papers like the Chicago Seed, and the Berkeley Barb, the East Village Other, Fifth Estate, and others.

In 1967, Jay Lynch teamed up with fellow Chicago transplant Skip Williamson to publish the underground newspaper The Chicago Mirror, which in 1968 after three issues was renamed and reformatted into the underground comix anthology Bijou Funnies.

Jay Lynch's best known comic book stories involve the human-cat duo Nard n' Pat, recurring characters in Bijou Funnies.

Up until his death, Jay Lynch had scans of more than 500 editions of the strip ready for any publisher who saw the potential of a Phoebe and the Pigeon People book.

Jay Lynch died from complications of lung cancer on March 5,2017, in Candor, New York.