by Carol Lay
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$14.95
132 pages
ISBN-10: 0867196599
ISBN-13: 9780867196597
Publisher: Last Gasp
Goodnight, Irene is a comprehensive collection of Carol Lay's "Irene" strips from Good Girl comics, which originally appeared in 1980. Included are 23 pages which have not yet been published. Irene is a satire of women of the Romance Comics, who are constantly in a state of heartbreak and falling in love. However, Irene has a lip plate that always gets in her way.
Carol Lay is the author of a weekly comic strip, WayLay, which first appeared in 1992 and runs in the LA Weekly, salon.com and in daily and weekly newspapers as far afield as Hong Kong and Norway. Lay has been drawing professionally for over 25 years. Born in Whittier, California, she graduated with a BFA from UCLA. She got her foot in the door at DC Comics and Western Publishing while simultaneously writing and drawing underground comics.
