![]() ![]() She lives in Los Angeles with her husband―the painter Wayne White. In 2014, she published the first part of her coming-of-age memoir, Over Easy. The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naive artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. In The Customer Is Always Wrong, Madge finally makes the decision to save. By Mimi Pond 5 / 5 ( 4 ratings ) About this ebook 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 na ve artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. In the years following, she wrote and illustrated five humor books and contributed regularly to dozens of national magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. Mimi Pond is an American cartoonist, comics artist, illustrator, humorist, and writer. Mimi Pond started her career as a cartoonist at the National Lampoon in the late ‘70s. ![]() Pond’s memoirs are lively, entertaining, empathic, and very funny-beautifully capturing the angst of 20-something working-class artists in the anything-goes sensibility of the late ‘70s Bay Area. Kirby writes: In this excerpt from the second book of her coming-of-age memoir, Mimi Pond’s alter-ego Madge grapples with a bad relationship and several eccentric and/or drug-addicted coworkers during a seriously terrible shift at her waitressing job. ![]() ![]() In this week’s Illustrated PEN, Guest Editor Robert Kirby presents an excerpt from Mimi Pond’s The Customer is Always Wrong. 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony. ![]()
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