Dame Darcy

Dame Darcy is an alternative cartoonist. Her comic book, Meat Cake, has been published by Fantagraphics since 1993. Darcy has also released several graphic novels, Frightful Fairytales, Dame Darcy's Meat Cake Compilation, The Illustrated Jane Eyre (Penguin 2006), Dollerium (Presspop, 2007), Comic Book Tattoo (Image Comics 2008), Gasoline (Merrell Publishers, 2008) and Handbook For Hot Witches (Holt 2012).

Dame Darcy exhibits her illustrations, paintings, and hand crafted dolls, throughout the world as fine art in galleries regularly, she also creates short films and animations which have won awards and can currently be seen on her YouTube channel. Her Band Death By Doll plays regularly and currently she has his music and more releases available on CD Baby.She has also designed painted murals and stained glass for the celebrity homes of Margaret Cho, Courtney Love, (among others) and window displays for Forbidden Planet in NY, Amoeba Records in LA and more.

Meat Cake, her long standing comic book title published by Fantagraphics since 1992 will be available as downloadable -e-books on Dame Darcy.com The compilation is also still available in the books section of DD.com. In 2000 DD illustrated stories for Alan Moore on his DC series Cob Web, and he also wrote a story for Meat Cake #9.

Dame Darcy has also released several graphic novels, Frightful Fairytales (published by Ten Speed Press 2002) also now available as an ebook with 3 new stories on DD.com, Garden of Poisonous Flowers (2003) Dame Darcy’s Meat Cake Compilation (Fantagraphics books 2003) The Illustrated Jane Eyre (Putnam Penguin USA 2006) Dollerium Book and DVD (Presspop, Tokyo 2007) Comic Book Tattoo a comic compilation illustrating the songs of Tori Amos, forward by Neil Gaiman (Image comics 2008) among other compilations. Gasoline graphic novel (Merrell, London 2008) has an accompanying music release by her current band Death By Doll as well as other albums. Meat Cake will be released in a series of graphic novels (Fantagraphics 2010-on) which includes a forward by Margaret Cho and a story written by Alan Moore. Marvel Comics hired DD to write Fairy-Tales using the characters from Fantastic Four released in fall 2010. Also Graphic Cannon 2 compiled by Russ Kick 2012 (7 Stories Press)