# The Customer Is Always Wrong - Hardcover

by **Mimi Pond** (Author)

**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 na ve 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.

### Author Biography

**Mimi Pond** started her career as a cartoonist at the _National Lampoon_ in the late 70s. In the years following, she wrote and illustrated five humor books and contributed regularly to dozens of national magazines and newspapers, including the _Los Angeles Times_. In 2014, she published the first part of her coming of age memoir, _Over Easy_. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband--the painter Wayne White.

**Number of Pages:** 448

**Dimensions:** 1.7 x 8.5 x 6.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** August 08, 2017

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- **Price:** 29.95 USD
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