phoebe gloeckners first book collects her highly praised autobiographical accounts of a teenage girls loss of innocence through sex drugs rape and aids this edition includes eight pages of new materiallong respected as one of the finest and most original of todays underground comics artists gloeckner shows both technical artistry and tremendous rangefrom her sly lurid and brilliantly colored posters for rock groups to her textbookquality medical illustrations from her sharp naturalistic juxtapositions for the atrocity exhibition jg ballard to the signature comics for which she is best knownpages include both black and white and color comics some that were published before in obscure comic books and some of her classics in addition to new stories in detailed nuanced panels these strips depict the isolation horror and disappointmentbut also the revolutionary transformative powerof young women trapped in circumstances ringed with drugs and sexual abuse gloeckner continues as a major literary and visual artist