<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 — then returns to her office to look up all her friends' and enemies' medical records. <BR>Taking its title from Freud's<I> Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious,</I> Gottlieb and DiMassa'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 — a shadowland of memory, sexual escape, and morbid snickering. </div>