Over Easy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1770461531 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Over Easy is an immediate, limber, and precise semi-memoir narrated with an eye for the humor in every situation.. At first she mimics these new and exotic grown-up friends, trying on the guise of adulthood with some awkward but funny stumbles. After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straightlaced world of college and the earnestness of both hippies and punks in the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking group she encounters at the Imperial Café, where she makes the transformation from Margaret to Madge. A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970sOver Easy is a brilliant portrayal of a familiar coming-of-age story. 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 Californiawith its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex, and drug
“A sublimely evocative depiction of California in the 70s.” Guardian Best Graphic Novels of 2014“For lovers of tawdry tales from the '70s, told with smarts and sensitivity, Over Easy is a gold mine.” Los Angeles Times“This graphic memoir captures the funky ethos of the time, when hippies, punks and disco aficionados mingled in a Bay Area at the height of its eccentricityTheres an intoxicating esprit de corps to a well-run everyday joint like the Imperial Cafe and never has the delight in being part of it been more winningly portrayed.” Salon Ten Spectacular Graphic Novels from 2014“Her lines are unpretentious and airy, and her people aren't overwhelmed by their affectations; Pond can capture facial expressions with a line or two.” NPR“Pond's fantastic new graphic memoir, Over Easy, tells the colorful story of her years employed at a restaurant in Oakland.” USA Today Pop Candy“Surprisingly tender.” Entertainment Weekly
She has also written for television: her credits include the first full-length episode of The Simpsons "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" and episodes for the television shows Designing Women and Pee Wee's Playhouse. She has created comics for the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen magazine, National Lampoon, and many other publications, and has written and illustrated five humor books. She l
cybercita said Mimi's back! And she's better than ever with this beautifully drawn, deeply felt, very funny memoir. I've been a huge, huge fan of Mimi Pond's work ever since I found her first book, Secrets of the Powder Room, in the 80's. I still have my carefully preserved but well loved copy and still think it's the funniest, most charmingly drawn collection of comics I've ever seen. Mimi disappeared {I later found out she took time away from cartooning to raise her children} and now she's back with this beautiful, elegant, deeply felt, fictionalized memoir of having to drop out of art school when her funding dries up and going to work at a restaurant in Oakland. I pulled it open on the subway and had. Luscious Vapors Poe ballantine First of all, I know Mimi Pond, we’ve corresponded extensively, she blurbed my first book, and when my (then) six-year-old son was in a heavy Pee-wee’s Playhouse phase and I discovered that her husband, Wayne White (the now famous artist), who essentially created that show (Mimi also wrote an episode) voiced the character Roger the Monster, Mimi offered to have Wayne call my son as Roger the Monster. (Terrified, my son declined). Around that time I was lucky enough to read the novel that would become Over Easy. The prototype was good enough to make the bestseller lists, I was c. Yale L Hollander said A Fresh, Steaming Serving of the Late Seventies. Over Easy takes place at the end of the 1970s, that murky era when we loped groggily past the nightmare of Watergate and had not yet awakened to Morning in America. The Stones, a full two decades away from their transmogrification into today's walker-rockers, were still making vital rock and roll that carried broad appeal as disco died, and the counterculture traded in its love beads and fringe for black leather and safety pins. Notwithstanding the changing times, the currency of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll remained the same. Caught in the middle of this tectonic shift (rather apropos for t