2010 Press Roundup

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