Mimi Pond (Book order)

Mimi Pond Book order

Mimi Pond is a celebrated cartoonist, illustrator, and writer whose work has graced the pages of publications like the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen, and National Lampoon. Her distinctive humor and keen social observations are hallmarks of her comics and television writing, including her contribution to the very first full-length episode of The Simpsons. Pond's sharp eye for detail and her ability to capture the human condition infuse her narratives with a unique style and wit, making her work both insightful and entertaining.

The customer is always wrong

445 pages
16 hours of reading

3.9(1491)Add rating

A young woman’s art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholism The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naïve 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.