Twisted Sisters (comic)

Twisted Sisters
The cover of Twisted Sisters #1. Art by Aline Kominsky.
Publication information
Publisher	Last Gasp (1976) Kitchen Sink Press (1994)
Schedule	Irregular
Publication date	1976 - 1994
Creative team
Artist(s)	M. K. Brown, Dame Darcy, Julie Doucet, Debbie Drechsler, Mary Fleener, Phoebe Gloeckner, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Krystine Kryttre, Carol Lay, Caryn Leschen, Carol Moiseiwitsch, Diane Noomin, Dori Seda, Fiona Smyth, Leslie Sternbergh, Carol Swain, Carol Tyler, Penny Moran Van Horn
Creator(s)	Aline Kominsky and Diane Noomin
Editor(s)	Diane Noomin
Collected editions
Twisted Sisters: A Collection of Bad Girl Art
Twisted Sisters, Volume 2: Drawing the Line

Twisted Sisters is an all-female underground comics anthology initially put together by Aline Kominsky and Diane Noomin, published in various forms from 1976 to 1994. In addition to Kominsky (later Kominsky-Crumb) and Noomin, contributors to Twisted Sisters included M. K. Brown, Dame Darcy, Julie Doucet, Debbie Drechsler, Mary Fleener, Phoebe Gloeckner, Krystine Kryttre, Carol Lay, Dori Seda, and Carol Tyler.

Twisted Sisters was the first "breakaway project" by former contributors to the ground-breaking all-female comix collective Wimmen's Comix.

In 1975, Wimmen's Comix contributors Kominsky and Noomin left that collective due to internal conflicts that were both aesthetic and political. Kominsky-Crumb has later claimed that a large part of her break with the Wimmen's Comix group was over feminism-related issues, and particularly over her relationship with Robert Crumb, whom Wimmen's Comix editor Trina Robbins particularly disliked.

Komisnky and Noomin put together a 36-page one-shot issue of Twisted Sisters, published in June 1976 Last Gasp, which featured their own humorous and "self-deprecating" stories and art.

In 1991, Noomin edited and put together a 260-page trade paperback anthology which she called Twisted Sisters: A Collection of Bad Girl Art (Viking Penguin), featuring the work of herself, Kominsky-Crumb, and 13 other female cartoonists, including many former Wimmen's Comix' contributors. All the work in the collection had been previously published, most of it in anthologies such as Weirdo and Wimmen's Comix.