Carol Lay
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Carol Lay (born 1952) is the author of a weekly comic strip, "WayLay," which first appeared in 1992 and which runs in the LA Weekly and on salon.com. It is also printed in daily and weekly newspapers as far afield as Hong Kong and Norway. Lay has been drawing professionally for over 25 years.
Lay was born in Whittier, California. In 1975 she graduated with a B.F.A. in Fine Arts from UCLA, after which she found work as an illustrator. Soon after, she got her foot in the comics door at DC Comics and Western Publishing while simultaneously writing and drawing underground comics for titles such as Weirdo and her own Good Girls 1–6.
In addition to appearing in MAD Magazine, Lay's work has also appeared in Newsweek, The New Yorker, Worth Magazine, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
She is also the author of Mythos, a prose novel featuring Wonder Woman, published by DC and Pocket Books.
Lay currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
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