Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 CLICK HERE TO RSVP _**RSVP is recommended but not required. Entry and seating are first-come, first-served. RSVPs do not guarantee entry to a full event.**_ **Mimi Pond crafts a gorgeous, dazzling biography of the Mitford Sisters** Born with pedigrees but without the pocketbooks to match, The Mitfords were certainly no strangers to lies, intrigue, or scandal. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. All six sisters were weaned on their family’s well-documented upper class eccentricities: a ne’er do well would-be entrepreneur father; a stern, stiff-upper-lipped mother; a revolving door of governesses of varying propriety, all against the backdrop of a crumbling estate falling into disrepair. The sisters grew from cloistered turn-of-the-century country girls into debutantes who would marry into political influence—for better or worse. Is it any wonder that a young, working class Mimi in Southern California becomes enamored with The Mitfords’ downright fanciful rich-and-famous lifestyle? This charming, inventively cartooned, and lovingly researched biography captures the dramatic, over-the-top antics of high society’s strongest personalities as they rubbed elbows with some of history’s most infamous fascists and communists. Pond’s genius for classic cartooning in the vein of the Vanity Fair caricature and the satirical illustrations of Charles Addams brings the aesthetic decadence of the 1920s and ‘30s to life with effortless aplomb, warts and all. Mimi Pond has been writing and creating comics for a very long time for all mediums, both antique and futuristic. Very long ago, she wrote the first episode of The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.” She is the author of a number of books. In 2014 and 2017, Drawn & Quarterly published her fictionalized memoirs about her life as a waitress in late-1970s Oakland, California: Over Easy; and its sequel, The Customer is Always Wrong. 2025 will bring about the graphic biography Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me. She is the recipient of an Eisner Award, Inkpot Award, and the PEN Center USA award for Graphic Literature Outstanding Body of Work. Pond lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the artist Wayne White. Kristen Schaal is an American actress, voice artist, writer, and comedian. She is best known for her roles as Mel on the HBO series Flight of the Conchords, Louise Belcher on FOX animated comedy Bob's Burgers, and Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls.