Jay Patrick Lynch (January 7, 1945 – March 5, 2017) was an American cartoonist who played a key role in the underground comix movement with his Bijou Funnies and other titles.

Lynch was the main writer for Bazooka Joe comics from 1967 to 1990; he contributed to Mad, and in the 2000s expanded into the children's book field.

[4] At age 17, Lynch moved to Chicago in 1963, where he attended art school at night[5] and worked a string of odd jobs, including running a service bar for the improv comedy troupe Second City.

As Ben Schwartz writes, Bijou Funnies "... would become Chicago's answer to Robert Crumb's Zap Comix, ... with early work by Lynch, Spiegelman, Gilbert Shelton and Skip Williamson.

"[4] Bijou Funnies was heavily influenced by Mad magazine,[7] and, along with Zap, is considered one of the titles to launch the underground comix movement.

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

The weekly comic strip Phoebe and the Pigeon People, by Lynch and illustrator Gary Whitney, ran in the Chicago Reader for 17 years in the late 1970s and 1980s; Kitchen Sink Press published 3 issues of a Phoebe & the Pigeon People comic book collecting material from the strip in 1979–1981.

Up until his death, 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.

Len would tell me, usually on the phone, which food conglomerates I could not parody, based on cease and desist letters from prior series.

[4] Lynch and his wife Carole Sobocinski collaborated in the early 2000s on a series of fine art paintings, selling them under the joint pseudonym "Kringo.