Carol Lay

Carol Lay
Lay, photographed in 2006
Born	1952 (age 64–65) Whittier, California
Area(s)	Cartoonist
Notable works	Way Lay Good Girls The Big Skinny Illiteracy
http://www.carollay.com

Carol Lay (born 1952) is an American alternative cartoonist best known for her 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. Based in Los Angeles, 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.

Lay was born in Whittier, California. In 1975 she graduated with a B.F.A. in Fine Arts from UCLA.

After graduating from UCLA, Lay entered the comics industry 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.

She is the author of Mythos, a prose novel featuring Wonder Woman (DC/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 (Villard, 2008).