ARTIST TALK, Mimi Pond

ARTIST TALK, Mimi Pond

Location: 533 Eaton Street

Free to the public

Mimi Pond is a cartoonist, illustrator, humorist, and writer. Her first long-form graphic memoir, Over Easy, detailing her post-art school years in the Bay Area, will be published by D+Q in Spring 2014. She has created comics for the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen magazine, National Lampoon, and other publications too numerous to mentio,n and has written and illustrated five humor books. Her credits for television include the first full-length episode of The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,” in 1989, and episodes for the television shows Designing Women and Pee-wee’s Playhouse. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the painter Wayne White.