LOVE AND LUNACY: A Story Minute Selection (Reformatted)

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"I dig Carol Lay's work because it's weird yet friendly yet disturbing yet funny -- a good combination." -- Matt Groening

"Carol Lay does these docu-fables that mix deadpan fantasy with a stoic, understated reality. She writes and draws in a cartoon monotone that masks the wit, intelligence, and reflective anger that hums beneath the surface. It's a pleasure to know she's around." -- Jules Feiffer

"The course of true love never did run smooth." --William Shakespeare

Visions of love dance in our heads, trampling underfoot the truths of love misdirected, love unrecognized, and love unrequited. How can we find love? Purchase love potions? Go online? Dowse? Carol Lay shows in these strips that love, when not blind, is myopic, astigmatic, and cross-eyed.

STORY MINUTE told twelve-paneled tales designed to be read in about a minute. It told fables; stories about the foibles of the media; twisty tales of crime and consequences, peeks into the competitive undercurrents within families; arched-eyebrow looks at humanity's self-destructive impulses, and showed scenes from the skirmishes between infallible fortune teller Madame Asgar and that less-than-competent devil, Nick.

The strip later evolved into the more-loosely structured WAYLAY, which, while keeping Story Minute tropes, also allowed Carol to comment on 9/11 and to offer glimpses into her own world and life.

[] Story Minutes are best sipped, not gulped. []
[] Story Minutes are formatted to read in Landscape orientation. []
[]Press the top of your 5-way controller and hit Enter if you want to full-screen an image. []

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Carol Lay's work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, More, Mad magazine, and The New Yorker. She has worked for both Marvel and DC, and wrote and drew the underground comic Good Girls.

Her graphic novels GOODNIGHT, IRENE: The Collected Stories of Irene Van de Kamp, and THE BIG SKINNY: How I Changed My Fattitude, her text novel WONDER WOMAN: MYTHOS, and the collection CAROL LAY'S ILLITERATURE: STORY MINUTES vol. 1 , which reprints Story Minutes strips from 1997-1999, are available in the Amazon Store.

Carol currently writes and draws SIMPSONS comics for Bongo while developing a new project, not as yet revealed. For updates check her out at carollay.com.