In the mid-1970s, Kinney began working with fellow comics artist Paul Mavrides on "Cover-Up Lowdown", originally a weekly panel cartoon that was collected and published by Rip Off Press in November 1977. Kinney contributed comics stories to all eight issues of Young Lust. According to Kinney, Young Lust "became one of the top three best-selling underground comix, along with Zap Comix and Gilbert Shelton's The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers". Griffith and Kinney gradually morphed the title into a satire of societal mores. Unlike many other sex-fueled underground comix, Young Lust was generally not perceived as misogynistic. The title, which parodied 1950s romance comics such as Young Love, was noted for its explicit depictions of sex. Next, Kinney and Bill Griffith co-edited Young Lust, an underground comix anthology published sporadically from 1970 to 1993. Kinney contributed to the first four issues (1968–1970), as well as the eighth and final issue (1973). Bijou Funnies was heavily influenced by Mad magazine, and, along with Zap Comix, is considered one of the titles to launch the underground comix movement. Crumb, of the original Bijou Funnies crew. Kinney was a member, along with Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch and R.
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