Twisted Sisters: A Collection of Bad Girl Art (1991)

Except for Carol Lay, Phoebe Gloeckner, and Krystine Kryttre, the 14 cartoonists featured in this collection are more goofy than twisted. Mostly autobiographical, these strips — many of which originally appeared in the San Francisco-based Wimmen's Comix — explore predictable female themes, from puberty to pesky men to domestic dramas. Lay's plate-faced heiress who pursues a blind lover (''Face the Facts of Love'') is an entertainingly bizarre exception. And Carol Tyler gives old material a savage twist with her diagrammatic ''Anatomy of a New Mom,'' in which a bloated, baggy-eyed young mother feeds her ''totally oblivious and blissed out need machine'' while toting a bucket of prepartum relics. Though its overwhelmingly adolescent humor is more often silly than subversive, Twisted Sisters has a few genuine laughs. B-