In 1967, 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". 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." "Bijou Funnies" was heavily influenced by "Mad" magazine, and, along with "Zap", is considered one of the titles to launch the underground comix movement. "Bijou Funnies" lasted 8 issues (from 1968 to 1973); a selection of stories from "Bijou Funnies" were collected in 1975 in the book "The Best of Bijou Funnies" (Quick Fox/Links Books).