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Populated by junkies, grifters, hustlers, strippers, pimps, and variousstrains of victims and criminals, this is a biting,satiric portrait of Americafrom the lower depths. If you put Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, and KathyAcker in a blender and added the ratty, unadorned drawing style of of CharlesRodriguez, you'd have some idea of how hot and incendiary a brew thisis. A collection of autobiographical stories, Eve Gilbert allows readersfull access to her unglamorous world, filled with people most of us hope wenever have to meet. "The Real Resume" is a depressingly realistic tour of thevarious wage-slave jobs Gilbert has held over the years. Another highlight is"Pregnate?"--which was written in San Fransisco porn store while Gilbert waswaiting for an interview-- in which Gilbert relates to how she ended up pregnantdespite a safety net of latex, with no money for even a pregnancy test, letalone an abortion. Unflinchingly, candid and caustic, Gilbert has one of themost uniquely confident and iconoclastic voices to hit the world of graphicnovels in several years.