They Call Me Mad Dog!: A Story for Bitter, Lonely People by Erika Lopez

About eight years ago, my sister gave me one of the most raunchy and outrageous books I had ever read, They Call Me Mad Dog: A Story for Bitter, Lonely People. The book is the second in the trilogy, the first of which is Flaming Iguanas and the third, Hoochie Mama. The story is served up in a mix of narrative, typography, and illustration which makes each page it's own little work of art.

I recently decided to give They Call Me Mad Dog another read and see if there was more to it than dykes on bikes and kinky kidnapping. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is an endearing - and hilarious - story about finding one's place in the world. Who could help but be completely enthralled with a woman scorned hell-bent on getting revenge against the bitch who betrayed her?

Here's the product description from Amazon.com:

What do you do when love goes wrong? If you're Tomato Rodriguez, the reigning queen of motorcycle-riding, bicoastal bisexuals, you do every wrong thing there is to do. But what starts out as a small-scale revenge job complete with whipped cream, Bic ballpoints, and a monster truck, soon turns into a murder charge and a visit to the slammer with all the rest of the bad, bad girls. Traumatised by tough B movie one-liners and tedious lesbian orgies, Tomato decides to transform herself into Mad Dog, hoping that Ilsa the Wicked Warden will think her too crazy to be convicted on a murder rap.