CRIME AND CONSEQUENCES: 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 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

"If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment -- as well as his prison." --Fyodor Dostoevsky

This one dreamed of becoming a serial killer. That one just wanted get rid of an annoying idiot. Those there planned perfect murders. One guy thought to find a way to protect himself from the world's evils; another, how to escape his own karma. CRIME AND CONSEQUENCES is a selection of STORY MINUTES strips about people who thought they were going get away with it.

STORY MINUTE told twelve-paneled stories designed to be read in about a minute. It ran for almost twenty years in the L.A. WEEKLY and other weekly and daily newspapers. It offered fables, stories about relationships and the foibles of the media, peeks into the competitive undercurrents within families, arched-eyebrow looks at humanity's self-destructive impulses, and scenes of the skirmishes between infallible fortune teller Madame Asgar and that less-than-competent devil, Nick.

The later, more-loosely-structured, WAYLAY strip continued Story Minute tropes while allowing 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.