Description
Over Easy is a brilliant portrayal of a familiar coming-of-age story. After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straight-laced world of college and the earnestness of both hippies and punks in the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking group she encounters at the Imperial Cafe, where she makes the transformation from Margaret to Madge. At first she mimics these new and exotic grown-up friends, trying on the guise of adulthood with some awkward but funny stumbles. Gradually she realizes that the adults she looks up to are a mess of contradictions, misplaced artistic ambitions, sexual confusion, dependencies, and addictions. Over Easy 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 who grows from a naive, sexually inexperienced art-school dropout into a self-aware, self-confident artist. Mimi Pond's chatty, slyly observant anecdotes create a compelling portrait of a distinct moment in time. Over Easy is an immediate, limber, and precise fictionalized memoir narrated with an eye for the humour in every situation.
About the Author
Mimi Pond is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. She has created comics for the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen Magazine, National Lampoon, and many other publications too numerous to mention, and has written and illustrated five humour books. She has also written for television: her credits include the first full-length episode of The Simpsons, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire in 1989, and episodes for the television shows Designing Women and Pee Wee's Playhouse.
Reviews
As funny and warm-hearted as a memoir about a bunch of punks, drug dealers, hippies, and art school dropouts screwing in the 1970s can get. Mimi Pond's coming-of-age graphic novel, Over Easy, is a delicious charmer. - Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins
Book Information
ISBN 9781770461536
Author Mimi Pond
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Drawn and Quarterly
Publisher Drawn and Quarterly
About the Author
Mimi Pond is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. She has created comics for the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen Magazine, National Lampoon, and many other publications too numerous to mention, and has written and illustrated five humour books. She has also written for television: her credits include the first full-length episode of The Simpsons, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire in 1989, and episodes for the television shows Designing Women and Pee Wee's Playhouse.
Reviews
As funny and warm-hearted as a memoir about a bunch of punks, drug dealers, hippies, and art school dropouts screwing in the 1970s can get. Mimi Pond's coming-of-age graphic novel, Over Easy, is a delicious charmer. - Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins
Book Information
ISBN 9781770461536
Author Mimi Pond
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Drawn and Quarterly
Publisher Drawn and Quarterly
