Wanna show your gratitude for this blog? Wanna read a real good comic book and help it become a reality?
If the answer to either question was, "Hell yes," go support Carol Lay's Kickstarter for her new comic, Murderville. Nothing Carol's ever done has been without great merit…and I say that as someone who's known her since she got into cartooning. In fact, back when I ran the Hanna-Barbera comic book division, I gave her some of her first jobs. She started as a letterer and it took her a long time before she was ready to graduate to inking. I think it took six months. Then, I blinked and she was suddenly drawing comics for me and even writing them. I never saw anyone move up in the field that rapidly.
The next step was that she moved from doing comics of other folks' characters to doing her own. I love artists who work in the grand, old tradition but I also love artists who invent their own, creating work that invents its own tradition…and she keeps doing that. One Carol Lay story does not necessarily look like another Carol Lay story. What I've seen so far of Murderville represents another step forward for the lady. So I urge you to go invest in her latest project and to do it now. To those of you who lament there aren't enough good, innovative comics around…here's your chance to do something about it.