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The Customer Is Always Wrong - by Mimi Pond (Hardcover)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Mimi Pond is an American cartoonist, humorist, and writer.
  • 448 Pages
  • Comics + Graphic Novels, Literary

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About the Book



"This is a continuation of Mimi Pond's book Over Easy, a memoir of her time working amongst the hippies and punks of the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking Imperial Cafâe. Pond's story is equal parts time capsule of late 1970s life in California-- with its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex and drug use-- and bildungsroman of a young woman from naèive, sexually inexperienced art-school dropout to self-aware, self-confident artist. Mimi Pond's chatty, slyly observant anecdotes create a compelling portrait of a distinct moment in time."--



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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.



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"Sharp and ambitious... If Pond's last book was a sitcom, The Customer is Always Wrong would be an HBO drama with a Sunday night time slot."--Jezebel

"The sobering wake-up call to naive nostalgia... [The Customer Is Always Wrong offers] a look at the end of a wild ride, punctuated by deeply profound moments in a time that could swallow you whole."--San Francisco Chronicle

"A book filled with ghosts... 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. "--Hollywood Reporter

"A charming, loosely autobiographical story of Pond's early years."--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."--Entertainment Weekly

"Mimi Pond is a treasure, one we ignore at our own risk... Her latest book -- a thick, semi-autobiographical bildungsroman called The Customer Is Always Wrong -- might be her greatest work to date. 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 -- some of them shady, some of them lovable, and all of them compelling. Pond's hand is confident and her figure work hops balletically across the page; her facial acting is simple, but searing."--Vulture




About the Author



Mimi Pond is an American cartoonist, humorist, and writer. She wrote the pilot episode of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" . She is the winner of the PEN Center USA award for Graphic Literature Outstanding Body of Work. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the artist Wayne White.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 6.3 Inches (W) x 1.7 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.5 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 448
Genre: Comics + Graphic Novels
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Format: Hardcover
Author: Mimi Pond
Language: English
Street Date: August 8, 2017
TCIN: 1008292588
UPC: 9781770462823
Item Number (DPCI): 247-38-0720
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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