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In the month since its launch, there has been an explosion of praise on the Internet for Mimi Pond's "too easy", an undisguised memoir of pictures about 1970 California restaurants
North American art world, especially pop art
Cultural lovers are waiting with anticipation for Pond's new book.
You don't know the cartoonist you know: she wrote the first complete
A long episode of The Simpsons in 1989, along with other ground-breaking episodes such as the theater that designed women and Pee Wee.
Since 1980, she has worked as a cartoonist and illustrator in magazines such as National satire, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the 17 th magazine.
She lives in Los Angeles and is married to painter and sculptor Wayne White, the subject of this joyful documentary, beautiful and embarrassing.
In that movie, we saw creativity and art.
For this kind of person, making is a way of life
A couple standing and their children
Although it was the first major print novel of the pond, she was no stranger to publishing.
Her previous five books record the pop culture of the 1980 s and 90 s from a female perspective, which is such an interesting cult classic, such as "Splitting": the truth about bad hairstyles, life Guide for girls in the valley.
As a professional cartoonist and illustrator, Pond has returned to her first "real" job in the future for most of her adult life --of-
Too easy age story.
The environment is Auckland in 1978;
The protagonist is art.
Margaret, who dropped out of school, took on the new role of March when she started working at the Empire cafe.
From the outside, the Imperial restaurant is like an abandoned Chinese restaurant.
Inside, however, it offers rich coffee and delicious food, as well as a range of quirky characters.
Margaret presented her painting, comic, Drucker, Lazlo Meringue, to the owner in exchange for a free meal;
Therefore, as an artist and individual, her growth began to cross the place.
In the end, March found the staff.
She started washing dishes.
Hot, tiring, never
End Mission pond refuse to romanticize.
Again, once she was promoted to a waiter, Pond showed that Madge learned the trick of the job she asked for while dealing with grumpy kitchen staff, quirky customers and her colleagues
The workers have an insatiable desire for everyone's gossip in the restaurant.
The new world of the Empire led march to friendship and sexual relations, letting her know about herself and others --
The upcoming classic elementsof-age story.
Part of the charm and ingenuity of Over Easy is its portrayal of the late world
1970 California, where it's mellow, drug-
The hippie culture began to be challenged by the original, sharp doubts of the early punk.
By frequent patrons of the Empire, Pond demonstrates the impact of greater social movements on Madge's growing self
An understanding of her gender, sex, race, and class identity. Her name-
Changes have taken place from the very beginning, marking the transformation of Madge from a privileged art student to a working student
From Girls to women's servers.
However, this is not a first-class tour or slum;
Madge embraces her work and learns to deal with the adult complexity that comes with her new relationship with friends and boyfriends in the Empire.
In the end, this is the story of the birth of an artist.
Madge combines her paintings with her work life and finds fertile cross-border works
Amazing support from her colleaguesworkers.
Using all the tools of the panel layout, Pond is good at the rhythm, views and comics of the story to create the frenetic rhythm of the weekday breakfast peak, or the lazy tranquility of the street on Sunday morning.
Her delicate line work depicts the characters very carefully, but gray.
The green palette conveys a distance of 1970 metres and gives off an eerie glow in the restaurant's greenhouse world.
The internet is often wrong, but its love is often careless.
This frank, interesting, visually complex story reproduces a particular time and place, telling a more general story that is difficult to put down.
Candida Rifkind teaches Canadian literature and graphic narrative in the English department of the University of Winnipeg.