false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175105131m/479246.jpg 479246 1 <div>Heard the one about the dying father? In this savagely brilliant graphic novel by slam poet Daphne Gottlieb<i> (Final Girl)</i> and<i> Hothead Paisan</i> creator Diane DiMassa, a 19-year-old woman named Sasha loses her father to cancer and takes a job in the hospital where he had worked as a doctor. Moving from room to room with her clipboard of forms, Sasha encounters the insane, the suicidal, and the brave &#8212; then returns to her office to look up all her friends&#8217; and enemies&#8217; medical records. <br>Taking its title from Freud&#8217;s<i> Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious,</i> Gottlieb and DiMassa&#8217;s first collaboration is both moving and darkly funny. Where comedy meets chemo, where mirth meets mortality,<i> Jokes and the Unconscious</i> explores the murky terrain of grief &#8212; a shadowland of memory, sexual escape, and morbid snickering. </div> 467663 15 8 2006 Jokes and the Unconscious: A Graphic Novel total:65|5:21|4:27|3:16|2:0|1:1| 65 262 99 16 3 1 false false Sun Sep 07 21:41:32 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 14:53:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 09:47:09 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 09:56:28 -0800 2009
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this is a really good cartoon book about how people got problems and feelings and dads are hard to understand sometimes if youre a girl. and how it's sad when family membres die and strange nonsense things ahppen and jokes are our way of dealing with ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 09:46:29 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 09:49:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 19:14:25 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 19:15:04 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 16:58:42 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 17:15:43 -0700 2008
The story itself reads largely like a written novel with the art adding layers more than detail.

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The prose is good, really good. This is one of the few modern day character studies that doesn't make me want to puke my guts into my boots.

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I really appreciate Diane DiMassa's art, and the story here is engaging too.]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 06 07:15:12 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 07:17:01 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Mar 28 11:05:46 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 10 16:22:25 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sat Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Aug 11 03:05:30 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 04:45:19 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Oct 28 17:48:15 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 17:48:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 13:17:39 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 13:17:39 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Oct 19 11:50:07 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 11:50:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 21 19:16:01 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 07:27:30 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 19:16:01 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=479246