FAMILY JEWELS; A Story Minute Selection (reformatted)
Book Details
Author(s)Carol Lay
PublisherWaylay Comics
ISBN / ASINB005LHIUAY
ISBN-13978B005LHIUA7
Sales Rank1,731,788
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
"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 (splendidly) 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
"...every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." --Leo Tolstoy
Within the ideal of "family values" lurk the realities of sibling rivalries, parental pressure, parent/sibling paranoia, and soul-constricting role models. The very idea of "family" implies a ticking biological clock. Is there, someplace in there, room for love? FAMILY JEWELS is a selection of STORY MINUTES that ruffles the ticklish underbelly of "family values".
STORY MINUTE told twelve-paneled tales designed to be read in about a minute. It told fables; stories about relationships and the foibles of the media; twisty tales of crime and consequences, arched-eyebrow looks at humanity's self-destructive impulses, and 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 the subsequent Bush Era) 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. (ie.: Hold your Kindle sideways.) []
[]Press the top of your 5-way controller and hit Enter if you want to full-screen an image. []
Optimized for larger screens. File size makes for a longer download.
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 (Boom! Town, 2012), which reprints (in hardcover and in sequence) 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 (and more art) check her out at carollay.com.
"Carol Lay does these docu-fables that mix deadpan fantasy with a stoic, understated reality. She writes and draws (splendidly) 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
"...every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." --Leo Tolstoy
Within the ideal of "family values" lurk the realities of sibling rivalries, parental pressure, parent/sibling paranoia, and soul-constricting role models. The very idea of "family" implies a ticking biological clock. Is there, someplace in there, room for love? FAMILY JEWELS is a selection of STORY MINUTES that ruffles the ticklish underbelly of "family values".
STORY MINUTE told twelve-paneled tales designed to be read in about a minute. It told fables; stories about relationships and the foibles of the media; twisty tales of crime and consequences, arched-eyebrow looks at humanity's self-destructive impulses, and 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 the subsequent Bush Era) 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. (ie.: Hold your Kindle sideways.) []
[]Press the top of your 5-way controller and hit Enter if you want to full-screen an image. []
Optimized for larger screens. File size makes for a longer download.
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 (Boom! Town, 2012), which reprints (in hardcover and in sequence) 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 (and more art) check her out at carollay.com.
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