Carol Lay

Carol Lay

Infobox comics creator
name = Carol Lay


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notable works = "Way Lay"
"Good Girls"
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website = http://www.waylay.com

Carol Lay (b. 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. [ [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=121595 Talking to Carol Lay - Irene and More] , Newsarama, July 19, 2007]

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. [ [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=36;t=001008 Carol Lay Wonder Woman: Mythos] , Pulse News, Comicon.com, May 15, 2003]

Lay currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Collected editions

* "Strip Joint"
* "Joy Ride"
* "Now Endsville"
* "Goodnight, Irene"

* Lay, Carol. "Mythos," Star Trek Pub, 2003. ISBN 0743417119

Notes

References

*comicbookdb|type=creator|id=3267|title=Carol Lay

External links

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* [http://www.salon.com/comics/comics2.html Lay's weekly strip, "Way Lay," at Salon.com]
* [http://scenemissingmagazine.com/article/?p=1043 Scene Missing Magazine Interviews Carol Lay]


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