Gilbert, Eve – Tits, Ass and Real Estate

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Tits. Ass & Real Estate

What left for me to say when Robert Crumb sums everything up in his intro? Her style is undeniably messy and unpolished, and it would be a tough sell getting anybody who doesn’t read comics to look at this. That’s a shame, because under all the messiness are some great stories. Eve has had a hard life, and that’s putting it mildly. She’s done every drug in creation, she’s been homeless and has had all kinds of crappy jobs. She’s not afraid to tell every sordid detail either. Stories in here are about her travels, her real resume, some fiction about various people that she met and all kinds of musings. This is an ugly book but it’s well worth $10 or so to check it out. There’s also a great interview in the back of the book so you get to actually hear from the author of these tales about her motivation for writing them and how she uses some of the horrible things that happened to her as therapy. Here, in case you thought I was kidding about it being messy…