This is a lengthy ensemble piece centring on a restaurant Pond worked in when she was cutting her creative teeth. Her latest book, The Customer is Always Wrong, doesn’t deal with any of that, though. Now Mimi Pond has had an interesting life so far, writing for The Simpsons, National Lampoon, Village Voice, New York Times, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. Pond's hand is confident and her figure work hops balletically across the page her facial acting is simple, but searing.Like hip hop, graphic novels are a self-referential form. Some of them shady, some of them lovable, and all of them compelling. It's a lengthy and detailed portrait of a young woman working at a restaurant in late-'70s Oakland and the cast of characters around her Her latest bookĪ thick, semi-autobiographical bildungsroman called The Customer Is Always Wrong National Post Best of 2017 Set in late 1970s Oakland, this comedic graphic novel from Over Easy author Pond follows a waitress named Madge whose career as a comic artist finally starts to take off.Įntertainment Weekly Mimi Pond is a treasure, one we ignore at our own risk. Hollywood Reporter A charming, loosely autobiographical story of Pond's early years. An Oakland that doesn't exist anymore, a culture that doesn't exist anymore, and people that don't exist anymore, in more ways than one. San Francisco Chronicle A book filled with ghosts. Read more time that could swallow you whole. a look at the end of a wild ride, punctuated by deeply profound moments in a. Jezebel The sobering wake-up call to naive nostalgia. If Pond's last book was a sitcom, The Customer is Always Wrong would be an HBO drama with a Sunday night time slot. She drops readers right back at the Imperial with its great coffee and depraved cast, where things only get worse for the addicts and alcoholics surrounding her while her career as a cartoonist starts to take off. Read more previous memoir Over Easy, Pond s storytelling gifts have never been stronger than in this epic, comedic novel. Told in the same brash yet earnest style as her. Outrageous and loving tributes and takedowns of her co-workers and satellites of the Imperial Cafe create a snapshot of a time in Mimi s life where she encounters who she is, and who she is not. Oakland in the late seventies is a scuzzy, low-rent warzone and Mimi Pond folds the tales of the sleaze-ball characters that sur- round her into her workaday waitressing life.
The Customer is Always Wrong is the continuing saga of a young naive artist working in a restaurant of drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Num Pages: 448 pages, Colour illustrations throughout.
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