Over Easy by Mimi Pond6/20/2023 (Fun fact: She penned the first-ever episode of The Simpsons.) Though she took some time off to raise her children - her husband, artist Wayne White, was profiled in the 2012 doc Beauty Is Embarrassing - she stayed quite busy in the '80s and '90s as an author, cartoonist for publications including Seventeen magazine and TV writer. Pond, 57, spent more than 15 years working on Over Easy. It was really fun until one day when it wasn't anymore." "It's really about navigating that moral swamp of the '70s when there were no rules and everything was 'I'm OK, you're OK,'" Mimi told me on the phone last week. The job came at a time when hippie culture was rapidly giving way to the punks, and drugs and casual sex were just another savory part of life. Pond's fantastic new graphic memoir, Over Easy (Drawn & Quarterly), tells the colorful story of her years employed at a restaurant in Oakland.
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