THEY CALL ME MAD DOG, 1998
"She's a master of what she draws and the stories she tells."
--Fabula Magazine
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"...We can laugh at ourselves ... through the genius of Latina
cartoonist...Erika Lopez. (She) brings to light some of
our...nonsensical thoughts.
"Erika ... is offensive and tasteless, while taking humor to an evolved
level of commentary....Her humor drips with a feminine mystique."
--Urban Latino
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"Erika Lopez is a quirky, intelligent, observant commentator .... If you
are willing to take a roller coaster ride on the dark comedic side, you
will be intellectually stimulated by this clever, insightful writer with
her sharp eye for the absurd in modern. American culture.
"Brilliantly and comically self-reflective....
"The kind of young writer who ... is courageous as well as outrageous.
And for an adventurous reader, this style may well even be contagious."
--Virginia Free Lance-Star, 1/10/99
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"Side-splitting romp through queer and pop culture, a campy free-for-all
that dances on the graves of big literary themes."
--Lambda Book Report, December 1998
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"A very good artist and writer."
--Moxie Magazine, Winter 1999
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"Not for the faint of heart. . . . Racy, raunchy, riotously funny, and
hilariously incisive."
--Feminist Bookstore News
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"Strap it on girls, and I mean your seatbelts....Tomato's adventures are
grosser and sexier than you can imagine, but the plot is nothing
compared to Lopez's uproarious narrative style which roars along at 100
mph."
--Out Magazine, December 1998
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"Run, don't walk, to bookstores to buy Erika Lopez's latest excursion
into crosstextual perversity .... One of the most iconoclastic young
'queer' talents, literary or otherwise, to emerge in recent years ....
her remarkable visual and verbal way with a story .... a new medium
perfectly suited to an artist who can convey serious wildness and
irreverence through all the possible applications of ink to paper ...
Her texts signal the appearance of a major new voice."
--Washington Blade 11/13/98
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"It must be exhausting being Erika Lopez's brain....They Call me Mad Dog
is like listening to a story told by an overexcited 6-year-old hyped on
one too many bowls of Froot Loops and far too many spent in front of the
television--too bizarre to believe, but too cool to turn off.
"The combination of words and images lifts her story above simply clever
satire. So does her writing .... Beneath the masterful use of language,
sly pop culture references, and schizophrenic stream-of-conciousness
style, she takes on some serious sacred cows of queer life, particularly
lesbian culture. This is no politically correct love story, and it's not
for the timid. This is a no-holds-barred assault on everything that
pisses Lopez off....They Call me Mad Dog is for everyone who's ever been
fed up with being good."
--Philadelphia Gay News, 1/29/99
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"Lopez manages to jab at the pop culture of middle trash America with
'knife-slicing' feeling ... I'm looking forward to Tomato's next
adventures."
--Siren Magazine, February/March 1999
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"Erika Lopez gives great text. Storyteller, cartoonist, and shit-kicker,
Lopex refuses to stick to any one expressive form or to any single
sexual, cultural, or political line .... Her narrative voice is one of
the sharpest you'll find among the hybrid arts at our cultural
borderlands."
--Los Angeles Advocate, 12/22/98
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"Lopez is so biting and witty that you'll laugh out loud, and her
observations about contemporary urban lesbianism are always right on
target .... Lopez keeps the pages turning."
--Curve, San Francisco, May 1999
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