12th Aug 2009
Good Girl Hall of Famer # 10: Camille Rose Garcia, Artist
Camille Rose Garcia was born in Los Angeles in 1970. She’s a cool goth painter girl, who creates these crazy, creepy images of whacked-out cartoon creatures. Camille Rose says that her art was influenced by childhood trips to Disneyland, and thrash bands like The Clash and The Dead Kennedys. Her paintings are gory, weird, funny, optimistic, and tragic all at the same time. One of her series is called Subterranean Death Clash, which tells the fable of an overpopulated, doomed world that’s forced to hide from war and environmental disaster by living underground. There are weeping gothic pixie princesses skulking in caves, and damaged fairies riding dented-looking birds in what appear to be tunnels. Then there’s the series Ultraviolenceland, where flipped-out suicide duchesses take pills and thrash around gold palaces, and moody, smoky-eyed vampires barf bats. Camille Rose qualifies for the Good Girl Hall of Fame because she’s such a trippy poet of suburban girlhood. If you like goth and art and tons of cool creativity, then check out her work, which can be found at http://www.camillerosegarcia.com/index.html.
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Yxta Maya Murray is a writer and a law professor living inLos Angeles with her husband Andrew and her two silky terriers, Sophie and Oscar. In January, she'll be publishing her first young adult novel, The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped. The Good Girls' Guide tells the story of Michelle Peña, a foster kid, straight A student, and track star, who also happens to be East L.A.gang royalty. Michelle has abandoned her family's gang ways, and is the happy foster kid of a doctor named Frank Redman out in Westchester, California. However, she finds herself getting drawn back into that Life when she and her best friend Kiki are kidnapped by
a gang, "The Snakes," in retaliation for a drug debt
owed by her brother.