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A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholismThe Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young nave artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap and quirky haven for eccentrics and Mimi Pond folds the tales of the fascinating sleaze-ball characters that surround young Madge into her workaday waitressing life. Outrageous and loving tributes and takedowns of her co-workers and satellites of the Imperial Cafe create a snapshot of a time in Madge's life where she encounters who she is, and who she is not.Told in the same brash yet earnest style as her previous memoir Over Easy, Pond's storytelling gifts have never been stronger than in this epic, comedic, standalone graphic novel. Madge is right back at the Imperial with its great coffee and depraved cast, where things only get worse for her adopted greasy spoon family while her career as a cartoonist starts to take off.
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.
