This wraps up her story nicely, and shows that the world of restaurants, and easy drugs, and what happens to all the people in the first book. I didn't know there was more to tell, until she came out with this latest, the second part of her story, of her time as a waitress, while she tried to establish herself as a cartoonist.

Since then, I have followed her work, as best I could, and was happily surprised when she published her memoir of her time working as a waitress through, or rather after art college Over Easy. It was the next step up from Mad Magazine and I got to recognize her cartoons, the way I recoganized Shary Flenniken, who did Trots and Bonnie in the same publication. In those days, I sought out all the cartoon magazines that I could, such as Punch and The New Yorker. I first 'met' Mimi Pond when she first started appearing in the National Lampoon. 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.

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. 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. A young woman’s art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholismThe Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naïve artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps.

Mimi pond the customer is always wrong