Mimi Pond

Over Easy due out April 15!

Hello, dear friends. It's been a long time between posts, but I am here to tell you that my magnum opus, my 15-years-in-the-making graphic novel, Over Easy, a tale of sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and eggs in the late 1970s in Oakland, CA, will be in stores April 15, or you can pre-order it on Amazon by clicking here.  

Yes, it's over 270 pages all about my post-art-school waitressing career in a world awash in cocaine, weed,  and pre-AIDS-era promiscuous sex.  In this nifty poster designed by my fantastic publisher, Drawn and Quarterly, you can see where I'll be if you want to come out and say hello. I would love that! What is not to love? It's got it all: vituperative fry cooks, sultry-but-vindictive waitresses, clever repartee, and all this in a world where no one was saying "Just say no." Everyone was saying "YES!" to EVERYTHING.  So here, at the intersection of hippie and punk, in this fictionalized memoir, my alter ego Madge attempts to navigate the moral swamp of a cockeyed decade. If you lived through this decade yourself, or you wish you had, this book is an absolute MUST! You haven't seen anything like this in the world of graphic fiction before. 

 

I get to meet Alison Bechdel!

Wednesday night, Alison Bechdel, cartoonist and graphic memoirist supreme, was signing copies of her latest, the collected 25 YEARS of  her comic strip, "Dykes to Watch Out For," at Book Soup on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Since she is old, old pals with my friend Phranc, the Jewish lesbian folksinger and artist, we agreed to meet there so that we could both go HANG OUT afterwards with Alison. Which we did. And it was awesome. We went to Canter's Delicatessen on Fairfax and had so much fun. I might as well live on the moon for all the cartoonist shoptalk I get to do, so I was very, very happy. I hold Alison in the starry firmament of graphic novelists - it's her, Spiegelman, and "Persepolis" creator Marjane Satrapi. Alison's grasp of the human body - particularly the female form - is very complete. She draws like an angel, and she's a really nice person, too!  

This is Alison and Phranc, posed before the pastries,

and Alison and me!