Carol Lay

Carol Lay
Carol Lay
Born	1952 (age 59–60)
Notable works	Way Lay Good Girls
Official website

Carol Lay (born 1952) wrote and drew a weekly comic strip, Story Minute (later to evolve into the strip Way Lay), which ran for almost twenty years in such US papers as the LA Weekly, the NY Press, and on Salon. Lay has been drawing professionally for over 30 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.

The Comics Journal #213 (June 1999) contains two interviews with Carol Lay. One, with Kent Worcester, extensively covers her early biography, influences, and stylistic development. The second, with Kim Deitch (with whom she worked on the 1982 comic adaptation of Eating Raoul) is more personal.

Lay's strips and illustrations have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Mad, Newsweek, , Worth Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker.

She is the author of Mythos, a prose novel featuring Wonder Woman, published by DC and Pocket Books (2003), Goodnight, Irene: The Collected Stories of Irene Van de Kamp Last Gasp (2007), and The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude, a Memoir Random House (2008).

In 2012, Lay and a friend started Waylay Comics to adapt her long-out-of-print and never-before-reprinted weekly strips into the Mobipocket format for Kindle.

Lay currently lives in Los Angeles and writes and draws Simpsons stories for Bongo Comics.

Bibliography

"Meeting Place" by Carol Lay.

• 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), Schreiner, Dave (ed). Now, Endsville (November 1993), Kitchen Sink Press, ISBN 0-87816-235-6
• 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
• Wonder Woman: Mythos, Pocket Star, 2003. ISBN 978-0743417112. (prose novel)
• Goodnight, Irene: The Collected Stories of Irene Van de Kamp, Last Gasp, 2007. ISBN 978-086719-659-7. (collects the Irene Van de Camp stories from Good Girls plus a cover gallery and "About Face" (2006), a new 18-page story drawn for the collection)
• The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude, A Memoir, Random House, 2008. ISBN 978-0-345-50404-3. (graphic novel/memoir/diet book, with recipes)
• 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
• Simpsons Comics Get Some Fancy Book Learnin', Bongo Entertainment, 2010. ISBN 978-1-892849-30-4. (5-page story, new for the collection, Lisa and Maggie Simpson in "Pandora, Jr.")
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Hellard, Alan (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "Dirty Laundry" The Simpsons Summer Shindig 4 (May 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
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Hellard, Allan (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "The Princess Priciple" Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson 55 (August 2010), Bongo Comics
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Villaneuva, Art (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "The Generosity Gene" Simpsons Comics 170 (September 2010), Bongo Comics
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Hamill, Nathan (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "A Tomb With a View" Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson 57 (December 2010), Bongo Comics
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Villanueva, Art (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "Pranks a Lot" Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson 58 (February 2011), Bongo Comics
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Hamill, Nathan (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "Sleepless in Springfield" Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson 59 (April 2011), Bongo Comics
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Villanueva, Art (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "Fur'n'Hate 451" The Simpsons Summer Shindig 5 (May 2011), Bongo Comics
• Duggan, Gerry (w), Lay, Carol (a), Villanueva, Art (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "Mousery" Simpsons Comics 179 (June 2011), Bongo Comics
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Hamill, Nathan (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "Planet of the Plants" Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson 61 (July 2011), Bongo Comics
• Lay, Carol (w, a), Hamill, Nathan (col), Bates, Karen (let), Morrison, Bill (ed). "Guardian Snow Angel" The Simpsons Winter Wingding 6 (January 2012), Bongo Comics

References

• Carol Lay at the Comic Book DB

External links

• Official website
• Scene Missing Magazine Interviews Carol Lay