In this weekly series, editor Lucas Wetzel spotlights new and unusual comic features from the GoComics A-Z listing.

Feature: Lay Lines Comics
Creator: Carol Lay
Format: six panels
Frequency: daily
Recommended if you like: Whimsical storytelling, '90s alt-weekly flashbacks, out-of-body experiences, Russian roulette

If you look at the state of comics today, you can divide things up fairly neatly into two camps: print newspaper funnies, and online-only features (i.e. webcomics). But bridging that gap for toward the end of the 20th century was a series of alt-weekly cartoons - colorful, counter-cultural, large-format comics with considerably more attitude than you would find in traditional print features. One of that era's pioneers is Carol Lay, who began publishing comics in the LA Weekly in 1990 after working for Hanna-Barbera comics, Western Publishing, DC and Marvel Comics. Her first mini-feature, "The Thing Under The Futon," also kicked off her arrival on GoComics earlier this year. Since then, she's been running other classic story lines such as "Now, Endsville" (which starts here) and "Invisible City," (which starts here), both of which were harvested from now out-of-print print collections. Reading Lay Lines Comics on GoComics should offer an interesting view at how Lay's style evolved over the years, from the early '90s "big teeth" look of her characters to potentially some of the alt-weekly work she did in the decades that followed. Lay Lines Comics also includes Lay's occasional contextual notes and special new illustrations. An excerpt from "The Thing Under The Futon" is below.

Read more Lay Lines comics right here on GoComics.