This collection is related to the work of underground cartoonist and artist, Jay Lynch. The collection has been arranged into 10 series. This includes 1) Correspondence, 2) Biographical and Artist files, 3) Photographs, 4) Personal and Business files, 5) Research files, 6) Roughs and Reproductions, 7) Oversized Documents, 8) Personal Items/Materials, 9) AV Materials, and 10) Merchandise and Memorabilia.

The Correspondence series includes personal and business correpsondence with a variety of other artists and contemporaries including Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Glenn Bray, and Denis Kitchen.

The Biographical and Artist files include articles, research materials, reproductions of art, and other informational material related to assorted artists and other figures present in the comix movement.

The Photographs series includes personal and family photographs ranging in date from the 1920s to the early 2000s.

The Personal and Business files include personal documents like passports, divorce papers, and Vietnam deferment papers as well as business documents like stock information, business cards, and personal pension plans.

The Research files include assorted articles, documents, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings related to a variety of research topics ranging from early cartoons, animation, and cult groups.

The Roughs and Reproductions series includes photocopies and reproductions of original sketches, roughs, and ideas created by Jay Lynch for various ideas and creations like the Garbage Pail Kids, Wacky Packages, Nard n' Pat, and Phoebe and the Pigeon People.

The Oversized Documents series includes materials that were unable to be housed with their corresponding series like biographical and artist files, research files, and roughs and reproductions.

The Personal Items/Materials includes personal items belonging to Jay Lynch including personal art materials, glasses, small art sculptures from high school projects, and award plaques.

The AV Materials include audio cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, VHS, Vinyl, and other assorted av materials related to cartoon and comic art.

The Merchandise and Memorabilia series includes items related to various merchandising producs in which Lynch was involved like the Garbage Pail Kids, Wacky Packages, MAD, Diamond Toymakers, and Topps Toymakers.

This collection represents a lifetime of work by B. N. Duncan spanning the 1970s until the artist’s death in 2009. It contains copies of his publications as well as photocopies and originals of his art work and writing for the The Tele Times, The Telegraph Avenue Calendar and various S/M publications.

It is worth noting that a high percentage of the collection is in photocopy form. Duncan was an avid collector and he systematically copied everything he drew or wrote. He filed everything in large manila envelopes which he labeled in felt tip marker. Labels on folders listed here have been transcribed as they appeared on the envelopes.

The collection contains biographical notes, sketchbooks, notes and diaries in addition to drawings and examples of his sculpture and although it does not contain a full run of the Tele Times it has a near complete run. He corresponded widely with other underground cartoonists and the collection contains both letters he received from others working at the start of the underground comics scene and copies of his letters to them.

The collection is of interest not just for its underground comics/ zine contents but also because it offers a snapshot of life on the street for the homeless and marginalized in and around Berkeley at the end of the 20th century. There is Berkeley memorabilia, examples of street publications and eighteen boxes of Duncan’s photographs of street people, some of which featured in the ‘Telegraph Street Calendar’. There are many examples of work by Berkeley homeless artists who Duncan helped and encouraged including ‘Sparky’, ‘Cliff Mason’ and ‘Narayana’. The blown up photocopies he used for an exhibition of work by artist’s living on the margins of society called ‘Artists on the fringe’ are here. The collection also contains Duncan’s audio recordings which offer additional documentation of life on the sidelines of society in Berkeley at this time.

Duncan’s S/M cartoons were numerous and the collection contains many examples and workings and reworkings of S/M themes for publication. He had a long standing relationship with the Society of Janus and all of his cartoons for them are here.

Duncan’s publications reside in this archive but records for his publications also appear in the Ohio State Universities Library Catalog. Larger original art items have been separated and appear in the BICLM art database.

Received from Lee Binswanger on January 14, 2000, the following material originally submitted by various artists to Wimmen's Comix.