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Mimi Pond ’s graphical novel Do Admit about Unity Mitford and the other Mitford Sisters has had its publishing rightfield clean up by Jonathan Cape
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Book publisher Jonathan Cape has buy the UK and Commonwealth publishing rights forDo Admit : Making gumption of the Mitford Sisters , a new in writing biography from cartoonistMimi Pond , with a " visual scrutiny of Britain ’s six celebrated sib , their ego - mythologizing and often - contradictory world panorama make for a fascinating body of work of narrative non - fabrication . " The rights were originally buy by editorPeggy Burns ' Drawn & Quarterly , and then the UK / Commonwealth right field were acquired from their agentEvan BrownandSamantha Haywoodat Transatlantic Agency . The book will be published in both territory in October 2025 . The Mitford family were an aristocratic English family who became specially well - love in the thirties for the six Mitford sisters , celebrated and scandalous , later described asDiana Mitfordthe Fascist and who married British fascist leaderOswald Mosley , Jessica Mitfordthe Communist who married American polite rights lawyerRobert Treuhaft , Unity Mitfordthe lover ofAdolf Hitler;Nancy Mitfordthe novelist and source ofThe Pursuit of LoveandLove in a Cold Climate;Deborah Mitfordthe Duchess of Devonshire andPamela Mitford , lover ofJohn Betjemanand"unobtrusive domestic fowl cognoscente " …
Dan Franklin , associate publisher of Cape Graphic Novels , said : " If you think you fuck everything about the Mitford Sister , every detail of their life , suppose again . In Do Admit , Mimi Pond tells their stories with such wit , such keenness , in such stunning drawing that it is as if you are hearing them for the first prison term . It is an sinful achievement . "
Mimi Pondsaid : " I am beyond majestic that Jonathan Cape is publishing my graphic fresh life history of the Mitford sisters . Not only am I activated to have a British publisher for this most British of subjects , I blush to find myself in the company of other graphic novelist I admire , such asDaniel Clowes , Posy Simmonds , Alison Bechdel , Charles BurnsandKate Beaton . I hope my take on the lives of the Mitford sisters pays court to these sinful women . "
As a young female child live in California in the sixties , Mimi Pond says that she fell in love with the Mitford sisters and was capture by Nancy , Pamela , Diana , Unity , Jessica and Deborah Mitford ’s societal brashness , pageant and scandal . The sisters were eminent - society debutante known for chafe shoulders with some of chronicle ’s most infamous fascist and communists , as well as writer , nicknamers , chicken - raise homebodies , " vituperative wits and passionate adventurers in the maelstrom of the 20th century " . The publisher said the book has been drawn with " inimitable esthetic flair and a mischievous affinity for the decadent and grandly decline aristocracy " , as Pond tell the story of the sister .
Mimi Pond has created comics for the Los Angeles Times , Seventeen mag , National Lampoon , and write the first full - distance episode ofThe Simpsons , Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire , as well asDesigning WomenandPee Wee ’s Playhouse . Pond has published two previous graphical novel with D+Q : Over EasyandThe Customer is Always ill-timed , and her work has been recognized with the PEN Center Award for Graphic Literature , the Inkpot Award , and the Eisners .
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