Description: "Mimi Pond crafts a gorgeous, dazzling biography of the Mitford Sisters."--
Brief description: Mimi Pond is an American cartoonist, humorist, and writer. She wrote the pilot episode of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" . She is the winner of the PEN Center USA award for Graphic Literature Outstanding Body of Work. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the artist Wayne White.
Review Quotes:
"An imaginative, often cinematic romp...Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me sprawls with spats, rifts, scandalous affairs, and political intrigue."-Robert Ito, The New York Times
"Pond's witty visuals and sharp prose make Do Admit the best group biography of the Mitford Sisters to date."-Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times "Pond revives Mitford-mania brilliantly in this dazzling chronicle of the soapy and scandalous lives of the eccentric British siblings who hobnobbed with fascists, communists, and royals."-Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2025 "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, Fun Home "Whether you know nothing (or everything) about the infamous Mitfords you will be wildly entertained by this exhaustive tome about them. A massive work almost big enough to encompass the enormous egos and lives of these fascinating (and sometimes frightening) woman. Told with wry charm and wit (the kind the Mitfords themselves might have appreciated) and endlessly visually-inventive. It is the sort of historical biography that will remind you that, yes, truth is always stranger than fiction." --Seth, Clyde Fans "An expansive graphic history rendered in washes of Prussian Blue that dissolve the temporal boundaries between Pond and the sisters."-Andi Zeisler, Salon"Mimi Pond's Do Admit is a dazzling, acrobatic swirl of graphic invention. It mingles the fascinating story of the famous, fabulous sisters with scenes from the author's glamour-starved childhood in 1950s San Diego. Pond's dry humour fits seamlessly with that of her eccentric British characters, but she is at her empathetic best portraying the heartbreaking losses and turns of fortune they endure. Her love for them shines forth from every page." --Maurice Vellekoop, I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together "Prepare to be entranced and to laugh out loud, though 20th century tragedy lurks here too. Mimi Pond has out-Mitforded the Mitfords in this acute biographical enterprise, rendered in exquisite line drawings and blue wash. Pond contrasts to good effect her younger bookish self with these six strong-minded and prewar English girls. Readers of Pride and Prejudice and Little Women have always plumped for one sister as their favorite. Two of the Mitfords embraced Hitler's Germany and Fascism, another became a Communist in America, and a fourth, indomitable custodian of a ducal estate. Author Nancy, master of the English language in all that she wrote, is my favorite. Who is yours?" -Flora Fraser, Pretty Young Rebel "Irresistible."-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review