On behalf of Drawn & Quarterly, Transatlantic Agency is thrilled to share that Dan Franklin at Penguin Random House UK’s Jonathan Cape has acquired UK and Commonwealth ex. Canada rights to award-winning cartoonist Mimi Pond’s DO ADMIT: MAKING SENSE OF THE MITFORD SISTERS, a graphic biography of the Mitford sisters—high society debutantes known for rubbing shoulders with some of history’s most infamous fascists and communists—telling the scandalous story of the eccentric, rebellious girls, and the beloved, flawed women they would become.
D&Q is represented by Evan Brown (evan@transatlanticagency.com) and Samantha Haywood (samantha@transatlanticagency.com). For more information, visit drawnandquarterly.com.
About the book
Outrageous, passionate and glamorous, the Mitford sisters beguiled their peers, the press, and then the rest of the world for decades to come. High society debutantes known for rubbing shoulders with some of history’s most infamous fascists and communists, the sisters were also, in turn, gifted writers, inveterate nicknamers, chicken-raising homebodies, scathing wits—passionate adventurers in the maelstrom of the 20th century.
As a young girl living in sun-bleached 1960s suburban California, Mimi Pond fell in love with the Mitford sisters. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah Mitford brought society glitz, pageantry, scandal, and real (rainy) weather to her own prosaic life. Drawn with inimitable artistic flair and a mischievous affinity for the decadent and grandly declining aristocracy, in Do Admit, celebrated cartoonist Mimi Pond brings the Mitfords to glittering life.