Bijou Funnies #1, Jay Lynch, 1968

Proof the underground was not only a San Francisco story. Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson put out Bijou Funnies from Chicago in summer 1968, growing it out of the underground paper they had run together, with Crumb and Gilbert Shelton among the contributors. Lynch drew the cover in the manner of an old funny-animal comic, with his own Nard 'n' Pat, the stuffy hat-wearing Nard and his cat Pat, promising a book "fer soo-fisti-cated high society bon vivants" and a spine banner bragging "more fun than a barrel of monkeys!" That mock-wholesome pitch wrapped around adult material became a house style for the whole movement.