Lay returns!
Just the thing to cheer one up after a mildly annoying customer-service experience on the way home:
Carol Lay has returned to the web, posting bunches of new material!
For those who don't know her, she's the cartoonist/writer who does Story Minute, a comic strip that—how to explain it? It's often funny, often clever, often engaging, sometimes moving, often thought-provoking, almost always worth reading. Each strip is self-contained; it's the short-short story form of the comics world. Try, for example, "Hair Do's and Don'ts," in which Medusa sets out to get her hair done.
Her site now includes some of her older paintings (such as "The Shroud of Bozo"), and some pieces she's done for magazines and newspapers, and other stuff. But mostly it contains a bunch of new Story Minute strips in the archives. Go forth and enjoy.