{"id":10565,"date":"2017-09-18T21:03:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T01:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10565"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:18:31","slug":"episode-236-mimi-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-236-mimi-pond","title":{"rendered":"Episode 236 – Mimi Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 236: Mimi Pond returns!<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I felt more of a sense of empty nest when I finished this book than I did when my children left home.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cartoonist and humorist Mimi Pond<\/a> makes her third appearance on the show, this time to celebrate publication of The Customer is Always Wrong<\/a>\"\" (Drawn & Quarterly). We talk about the joys of coming back to NYC (and her favorite diner in the city), the East Village becoming kitsch, the process of translating her book from prose to comics, the differences between working in print and making web-comics for The New Yorker<\/a>, publishing the conclusion of her unreliable memoir and lamenting a story that didn’t make it didn’t make it into the book, navigating celebrity-adjacent moments in LA, her fascination with the Mitford sisters, her realization that San Diego Comic-Con is “cosplay concentration camp”, having a very creative plan for dental coverage, why she considers Beverly Clearly the Hemingway of children’s writers, her pet peeve of being shelved in bookstores beside superhero comics, and her great lesson for being an artist: “make friends with discomfort”! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Over Easy<\/a>\"\" and The Customer is Always Wrong<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“I liked Archie comics because it was a look to an adolescence I hoped I would have. It turned out to be a crushing disappointment. There was no Pop’s Soda Shop! I didn’t get to date a guy with hashmarks on the side of his head. Most importantly, there was no Jughead!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n