Carol Lay is best known for her weekly comic strip Story Minute (later to evolve into the strip Way Lay) which ran for almost 20 years in such papers as LA Weekly, the NY Press and Salon. Her strips and illustrations have also appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Mad Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. She is the author of Mythos, a prose novel featuring Wonder Woman, published by DC and Pocket Books, Goodnight, Irene: The Collected Stories of Irene Van de Kamp published by Last Gasp, and The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude, a Memoir, published by Random House.