Wendy Werris, writing for Publisher's Weekly, talks with cartoonist Carol Lay about her memoir THE BIG SKINNY: HOW I CHANGED MY FATTITUDE, due out after the New Year from Villard:
"'I've drawn from everything I know as an artist and a person and put it in this book,' says Lay. She brought elements of memoir to the story to give the book more drama, adding her family history, and she deeply probed her inner life while writing the text. 'It was painful,' says Lay, although her wicked sense of humor as a cartoonist brings an equal measure of laughs to her dieting struggles. In the book, a cartoon George Clooney occasionally shows up at Lay's door bearing bags of fast food. Time and again she slams the door in his face to forgo the fat and carbs for healthier, low-calorie choices.
"The Big Skinny is a first; a cartoon diet book with recipes, menus and a calorie counter. 'It combines memoir with solid information—in a story context—on how to lose weight and keep it off,' Lay explains. 'It's for food strugglers like me; it's experiential and it's fun.'"
"Way Lay," Carol Lay's comic at Salon
Hat tip Michael Maslin!
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