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A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970sOver Easy is a brilliant portrayal of a familiar coming-of-age story. After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straightlaced world of college and the earnestness of both hippies and punks in the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking group she encounters at the Imperial Caf, where she makes the transformation from Margaret to Madge. At first she mimics these new and exotic grown-up friends, trying on the guise of adulthood with some awkward but funny stumbles. Gradually she realizes that the adults she looks up to are a mess of contradictions, misplaced artistic ambitions, sexual confusion, dependencies, and addictions.
About the Author
Mimi Pond is a cartoonist, illustrator, humorist and writer. Her graphic memoir, "The Customer is Always Wrong," given a starred Kirkus review and amassing more positive reviews and commentary across the media spectrum, is now available for sale. It is the long-awaited 400 pages sequel to 2014's "Over Easy," which detailed her post-art school waitressing career in the late 1970s in Oakland Ca. "Over Easy" garnered a tremendous critical response, a place on the New York Times Best Seller List, the PEN Center USA award for Graphic Literature Outstanding Body of Work, and an Inkpot Award from Comic Con International in San Diego.Pond has also produced a mug that both promotes and celebrates the title of her new book. http://www.fishseddy.com/the-customer-is-always-wrong-mug.htmlPond has created comics for the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen Magazine, National Lampoon, and many other publications too numerous to mention, along with five humor books. She has also written for television: her credits include the first full length episode of the Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" in 1989, and episodes for the television shows "Designing Women" and "Pee Wee's Playhouse". She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the painter Wayne White.
