To all you California Monster Girls, mark your calendars for Wednesday, June 15th, at 7:30pm for a perfect mid-week, "hump day" treat.
Erika Lopez will be doing a special reading at Pegasus Downtown in Berkely, CA. at 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley (510) 649-1320
More information can be found at Pegasus' Official Website or on their Facebook Page for the Lyrics and Dirges Series.
Monster Girl Media and our girl Erika Lopez has gotten some major press from some major sources this year! With The Girl Must Die hitting the shelves (virtual and physical) just two months ago in October, we've spread massive amounts of mayhem in a miniscule amount of time.
These links and more can be found in the new Our Press! link at the top of the site and you can always drop in to say hello on our facebook page, or tweet @minimonstergirl.
PBS.org - Erika Lopez on the importance of 'patience, faith and insanity' - September 29, 2010
"Lopez starting writing and drawing again, and the result is her new memoir/manifesto for Monster Girls: The Girl Must Die. And she’s not just back with another incredibly ferocious, dirty, cursing and kicking and screaming book. She’s part of a new collective, Monster Girl Media, for artists, writers and filmmakers."
-Jessa Crispin
Bust Magazine - Write On! - October/November 2010 Issue
"Rags-to-Riches stories are a dime a dozen. But what about the other side of this well-worn genre? What about the rags-to-riches-and-back-to-rags story? It this topic feels extra relatable right now (and in this economic climate, chances are good that it might), then The Girl Must Die, the new illustrated memoir by Erika Lopez, should be the very next thing you read in the cafe at Barnes & Noble while everyone else is at work.
-Emily Rems
The Rumpus - Erika Lopez Builds her own Utopia - October 11, 2010
"[...]The Girl Must Die is a gorgeously illustrated, compulsively readable, and fiercely uncompromising start. The book has all the hallmarks of Lopez’s earlier work, but there’s a definite sense that the gloves are off. Some nine years in the making, The Girl Must Die is part memoir, part credo, part lecture, full of rambling thoughts on the state of the world and Lopez’s wonderfully bawdy accounts of everything that’s befallen her so far—as well as what she’s still got coming."
-Eryn Loeb
Bitch Magazine - Beast Master: Monster Girl Erika Lopez - Winter 2010 Issue
"Written and illustrated in her provoocative-yet-hilarious style, TGMD is an exhilirating thrill-ride though metaphors and insights about being a woman in the 21st century that are so heady and multilayered it would take a dozen readings to integrage them."
-Suzanne Rush
NPR.ORG - 'The Girl Must Die': A Raw And Raunchy Call To Arms - November 5, 2010
"Her writing is a similar amalgam of breathless tirade, stream of consciousness, aphorism and traditional autobiographical narrative. The result is a call to arms. "Do whatever it takes to finally grow up and have a full slice of pie, because we need you and all that you know." She wants to rally the monster that lives in every girl and bring back the gritty, guitar- and gun-slinging women who disappeared after the 1990s. "
-Jessa Crispin
New York Magazine - Holiday Guide 2010: Books to Give From Independent Bookstores - November 24, 2010
"Made complete by Lopez's gritty black-and-white illustrations, it's not just a book—it's an object of art in itself. This is the perfect book for your loudly inappropriate best friend, your crazy unmarried aunt, or your fantastic badass self."
-Kimmie David
We mentioned this way back in October, but even the most devout Monster Girls need a refresher every once in a while.
In January 2011, Erika Lopez will be doing her one-monster-girl-show in London and Bamberg, Germany. It'll be about a month after Christmas, and we know your pocketbook will be in major Monster Girl malaise. So why not come out and trade war stories with Monster Girl Media's one-but-not-only Welfare Queen!
For those of you who have read Erika's newest brick of a book The Girl Must Die, you'll know exactly what to expect. For those of you who haven't, maybe you should take Kimmie's advice, and visit the markette to get yours today.
The Where and When:
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - London, England
Doors: 18:00, performance 21:00
Bar Wotever @ Royal Vauxhall Tavern
372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 5HY
http://www.rvt.org.uk/event/bar-wotever-47
Free Entry! All Welcome!
Saturday January 22, 2011 - Bamberg, Germany: quick n' dirty show (passing the hat afterwards; books/t-shirts available)
20:00
Catwheezles Castle
Steinweg 8, 96050, Bamberg, Germany
http://www.catwheezles-castle.de/
Saturday, January 29, 2011 - London, England
Doors: 19:00, performance 20:00
Wotever Upstairs at Ritzy, Ritzy Cinema
Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, SW2 1JG
http://woteverworld.com/
Entry £5 / £3 Ritzy members
Erika's 2010 mayhem-spreading tour has wrapped up! Thanks again to all of you who came out!
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Wednesday October 13, 2010 - San Francisco, CA
Time: 7PM
City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway (North Beach)
http://www.citylights.com/info/?fa=events
Tel (415) 362-8193
Wednesday October 27, 2010 - New York, NY
Time: 6PM
Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd (Between 124th and 125th Streets)
http://www.huemanbookstore.com
Tel 212-665-7400
Friday October 29, 2010 – Brooklyn, NY
Time: 7:30 - 9:30PM
A Salon...
338 Berry Street
3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Books available for sale / Open to the public no RSVP required
Tuesday November 2, 2010 – New York City, NY*
Time: 7PM
Bluestockings
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington
http://bluestockings.com/events
Tel: (212) 777-6028
Wednesday, November 3rd - Philadelphia, PA
Borders Bookstore - CANCELLED
Friday, November 5th - Philadelphia, PA
Time: 7:00-9:00PM
Performance of "The Welfare Queen" Show
William Way Community Center
1312 Spruce Street
Philadelphia PA
Tickets: $15.00 at door *No one turned away for lack of funds - It's a Welfare Show!
Books and t-shirts available
Thursday, November 11th - San Francisco, CA
Time: 7PM
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
http://www.mtbs.com
415-282-9246
Note: LA Dates have been corrected (November 9, 2010)
Wednesday, November 17th - Los Angeles, CA
Time: 7PM
Deyermond Art + Books
2801 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405
http://www.deyermondbooks.com
(310) 450 4400
Thursday, November 18th - Los Angeles, CA
Time: 7:30PM
Skylight Books
1818 N. Vermont Avenue
http://www.skylightbooks.com
Tel: (323) 660-1175
Friday, November 19th - Los Angeles, CA
Time: 8PM
KGB Studio
1640 North Spring Street
http://www.kgbla.com
Tel: (323) 224-1900
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