FABLES AND FICCIONES: 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

"Reality is not always possible, or likely." --Jorge Luis Borges

From a beauty and a beast to a guardian angel cab driver, FABLES AND FICCIONES presents surreal and fanciful stories about cloud sculptors, Shakespeare-writing monkeys, and slipping sideways across parallel universes. This large STORY MINUTE selection offers a huge helping of the kind of quirky, imaginative, read-in-a-minute stories that could only come from the unique imagination of Carol Lay.

STORY MINUTE told twelve-paneled tales designed to be read in about a minute. It told fables; stories about relationships; twisty tales of crime and consequences, 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.

As the more loosely structured WAYLAY, it carried on Story Minute tropes, allowed Carol to comment on 9/11 , and to offer glimpses into her own world and life.

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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 as yet not revealed. For updates check her out at carollay.com.