Do Admit

An exemplary group biography with all the boring bits cut out… Pond’s illustrations are perfect, gorgeous and intricate, occasionally beautifully surreal… [she] shows us the Mitfords afresh in often poignant and beautifully nuanced chiaroscuro. It’s often absolutely hilarious too… A total treat - bravo. – India Knight * Sunday Times *The celebrated yet scandalous Mitford sisters have filled the pages of many books, but Pond brings them to life again with exuberant art and sly humour * Red *An imaginative, often cinematic romp… Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me sprawls with spats, rifts, scandalous affairs, and political intrigue. * New York Times *Pond’s witty visuals and sharp prose make Do Admit the best group biography of the Mitford Sisters to date. * Los Angeles Times *A spectacular, dizzying romp through the tumult of the twentieth century. Her kinetic drawings and boisterous, endlessly inventive layouts somehow bring coherence to the sprawling, branching plots of her subjects’ lives. The visual world Pond creates is phantasmagoric, drawing on deep veins of vintage graphic design. And her grip on the words is equally deft. She’s clearly spent so much time steeping in the rich textual legacy that this family has left the world—their books, letters and secret family lingo—that she begins to sound suspiciously like a seventh member of this sophisticated and scandalous sorority. Brava. – Alison Bechdel, author of FUN HOME

Mimi Pond is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. She has created comics for the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen magazine, National Lampoon, and many other publications. She has also written for television - her credits include the first full-length episode of The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”, and episodes for the television shows Designing Women and Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Her two graphic novels, Over Easy (2014) and The Customer is Always Wrong (2017) gained national critical acclaim, winning the PEN Centre USA Award for Graphic Literature Outstanding Body of Work in 2014 and nominated for the Harvey Award Book of the Year in 2017. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the painter Wayne White.