Carol Lay

Carol Lay (born 1952) is the author of a weekly comic strip, Way Lay, which first appeared in 1992 and which runs in the LA Weekly and Salon. 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.

Biography

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.^[1]

In addition to appearing in Mad, Lay's work has also appeared in Newsweek, The New Yorker, Worth Magazine, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

She is the author of Mythos, a prose novel featuring Wonder Woman, published by DC and Pocket Books.^[2] The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude was published by Villard/Random House Dec. 30, 2008.

Lay currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Bibliography

• Lay, Carol (w, a). "Reach Out and Touch Someone" Pontiac Tempura (July 1980), unknown publisher
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Binswanger, Lee and LeMieux, Kathryn (ed). "The Mysogynist" Wimmen's Comix 8 (March 1983), Last Gasp
• Lay, Carol (as "Cora Lloyd") (w, a), Bagge, Peter (ed). "Midwestern Wedding" Weirdo 10 (Summer 1984), Last Gasp
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Gilbert, Erick (ed). "Brainfood" Cannibal Romances 1 (1986), Last Gasp
• Bridwell, E. Nelson; Cavalieri, Joey; Lay, Carol (w), Lay, Carol (a), Gafford, Carl (col), Weiss, David Cody (as "Cody") (let), Thomas, Roy (ed). The Oz-Wonderland Wars 1 (January 1986), DC Comics
• Bridwell, E. Nelson; Cavalieri, Joey; Lay, Carol (w), Lay, Carol (a), Barube, Liz (col), Lay, Carol (let), Thomas, Roy (ed). The Oz-Wonderland Wars 2 (February 1986), DC Comics
• Bridwell, E. Nelson; Cavalieri, Joey; Lay, Carol (w), Lay, Carol (a), Barube, Liz (col), Lay, Carol (let), Thomas, Roy (ed). The Oz-Wonderland Wars 3 (March 1986), DC Comics
• Lay, Carol (w, a). Good Girls 1 (April 1987), Fantagraphics Books
• Hernandez, Gilbert (w, a), Lay, Carol (col), Hernandez, Gilbert (let), Groth, Gary (ed). "Heartbreak Soup: Space Case" Anything Goes! 4 (May 1987), The Comics Journal
• Lay, Carol (w, a). Good Girls 2 (October 1987), Fantagraphics Books
• Lay, Carol (w, a). Good Girls 3 (May 1988), Fantagraphics Books
• Lay, Carol (w, a). Good Girls 4 (February 1989), Fantagraphics Books
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Kominsky-Crumb, Aline (ed). "The Prince and the Art Girl" Weirdo 27 (Spring 1990), Last Gasp
• Lay, Carol (w, a). Good Girls 5 (January 1991), Fantagraphics Books
• Lay, Carol (w, a). Good Girls 6 (1991), Rip Off Press
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Kinney, Jay (ed). "Panty Raid" Young Lust 8 (1993), Last Gasp
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Amara, Phil (ed). Joy Ride (January 1996), Kitchen Sink Press, ISBN 0-87816-398-0
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Couch, Christopher (ed). Strip Joint (September 1998), Kitchen Sink Press, ISBN 0-87816-578-9
• Now Endsville
• Goodnight, Irene
• The Big Skinny
• Mythos, Star Trek Pub, 2003. ISBN 0743417119
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Villanueva, Art (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "The Sound and the Flurry" Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson 52 (February 2010), Bongo Comics
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Hellard, Alan (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "The Mystery of the Pesky Desk" Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson 53 (April 2010), Bongo Comics
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Villanueva, Art (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "Fortunate Son" Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson 54 (June 2010), Bongo Comics

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References

External links

• Official website
• Scene Missing Magazine Interviews Carol Lay