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Dame Darcy (born June 19, 1971, in Caldwell, Idaho), known by her pen name is an alternative cartoonist, fine artist, musician, cabaret performer, and animator/filmmaker. She is a feminist, witch, vegetarian, environmentalist, coronated Mermaid Queen and Sea Captain. Her "Neo-Victorian" comic book series Meat Cake is published by Fantagraphics Books in a 32 page pamphlet style from 1993–2008.
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- Meat cake by dame darcy video prevew
- Biography
- Discography
- Record cover design
- Fine Art Exhibitions
- Interior design murals and sign painting
- References
Meat Cake Bible (Fantagraphics Books, July 2016) Is currently nominated for an Eisner Award at the San Diego Comic Convention 2017— every story from all 17 issues of Meat Cake (1993-2008), as well as new stories from the unpublished 18th issue; over 400 pages of comics, including all covers, and authors photos. Dame Darcy is currently working on a serial graphic novel entitled Meat Cake The Voyage of Temptress. A sequencial nautical adventure starring the cast of Meat Cake, with similar titled screenplay.
Her graphic novels include Handbook for Hot Witches, The Illustrated Jane Eyre, Frightful Fairytales, Gasoline, Dollerium. and more.
Dame Darcy worked with writer Alan Moore and for such publishers as America's Best Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Kitchen Sink Press, Starhead Comix, Penguin Putnam, PressPop Tokyo, Merrell, Henry Holt and Company, and Seven Stories Press. Dame Darcy has published about 100 books internationally, with her comics being translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, among others. Her films and animation have won awards and been shown internationally. Her fine art and dolls have been exhibited and sold in art galleries globally for more than 20 years.
Biography
Dame Darcy was raised on an Appaloosa Horse Ranch near a Native American Reservation in Idaho by cowboy poets, and acquired her initial skill set while still a child and teen working as an apprentice to her father in his sign painting studio, Green Tree Graphics.
She began her own career at age 17 when she won a scholarship to the San Francisco Art Institute. During this time, she majored in animation, and studied film making and performance art while acting in films by George Kuchar. Also publishing Meat Cake as a zine series.
She made her first publishing deal at the age of 21 when her comic book series Meat Cake was picked up by Fantagraphics Books. She originally considered using the pen name "Richard Dirt" but her father suggested adding a title to her own first name instead. So Richard became the cartoon character representing Darcy in her series.
She performed during this time with Lisa Crystal Carver and Jean-Louis Costes's underground cabaret Suckdog Circus. and in Caroliner Rainbow, where she played banjo on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th albums. Also touring with these bands and putting out her own experimental freak folk singles with Nuff Said records (reviewed by Spin and Forced Exposure) and The Cocktails.
After moving to New York City at age 22 Dame Darcy began her freelance illustration career for the Village Voice, NY Press, Paper Mag and others. She illustrated for fashion designers Anna Sui and Gothic Lolita designers CWC, Baby Doll, Ku, Coi Girl Magic and Jared Gold while working as a runway model for CK and other designers.
During this time she continued playing banjo sea shanties and other performance art and music.
Performing in cabarets and rock venues around NYC, acting in experimental short movies and art films, and touring with her music to promote her comics, multiple times around the US, Europe, and Canada. She met and befriended many of her idols during this time, and played as the opening act for Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Michael Gira and Jarboe of Swans (band), Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV, Kembra Pfahler, Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Wikipedia, Courtney Love, Amanda Palmer, Rasputina , Elliott Smith, and performed at Joe Coleman (painter) wedding to Whitney Ward.
From 1996-2000 Darcy collaborated on a TV series for public access with Lisa Hammer entitled Turn Of The Century
She finished and optioned her first feature film script, Planet Blue while doing animated comics of Planet Blue for Paper Magazine Online.
After Dame Darcy witnessed 911 she moved to Los Angeles.
It was during this time the graphic novels, (Ten Speed Press, 2002 ), The Illustrated Jane Eyre (Penguin, 2006), Gasoline (Merrell, 2008) and the Dollerium series and DVD (Tokyo Pop 2007) were published .
When Darcy first moved to L.A. her fine art became represented by The Heller Gallery at Burgamot Station in Santa Monica https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/189967396/. She started doing fine art solo exhibits featuring original art from her books, illustration, and paintings. While in LA from 2001-2007 Darcy continued to do fine art exhibitions at Melt Down Comics
After meeting Tokyo Pop at the San Diego Comic con, Dame Darcy toured Tokyo and Kyoto Japan in 2001 and in 2002.
She then began designing fashion for Japanese Lolita clothing and doll designers Coi‐Girl Magic, CWC, KU/Baby and LaForet http://loligoth-dbs.livejournal.com/856.html. Darcy also toured Sydney and Melbourne Australia at this time to promote Frightful Fairytales and Meat Cake. And in 2003 toured with Skippy Spiral in their band Death By Doll at the City OF Women http://www.cityofwomen.org/en/content/events?page=2 Touring in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Romania.
During this time Dame Darcy wrote the graphic novel and screenplay Gasoline https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=10749377965&cm_sp=collections-_-7fugkrLDNBgjWJUOPzxEp0_item_1_57-_-bdp, (which was optioned) and recorded the album Gasoline (Death By Doll, released on Emperor Penguin Records
Dame Darcy also became friends with Neil Gaiman who wrote the introduction for Comic Book Tattoo in which Darcy included a comic illustrating a song by Tori Amos (and signed at San Diego Comic Con) Pandora's Aquarium
Because You Tube wasn't really a thing yet, and Dame Darcy's director Lisa hammer was still in New York, instead of making an experimental TV show in L.A., Darcy instead began auditioning to appear and promote Meat Cake comics through situationist Dada performance art.
Using Hollywood's cheezy Dating Shows as a performance art medium, Dame Darcy appeared on
Darcy returned to NYC, where her fine art became represented by SLOAN FINE ART https://www.google.com/search?q=Alix+Sloan+Gallery&oq=Alix+Sloan+Gallery&aqs=chrome..69i57.1759j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 in LES from 2007-2012 when the gallery was closed due to Hurricane Sandy
While in NYC Dame Darcy co-hosted Naughty Nautical Nite cabaret
In 2012 Darcy moved to Savannah GA, where she released her feminist empowerment graphic novel advice guide for teens, Hand Book For Hot Witches on Holt. https://www.etsy.com/listing/179199533/hand-book-for-hot-witches-metaphisical At the New York Comic con that year she shared the same signing table as Anne Rice, at an event at Forbidden Planet http://guestofaguest.com/new-york/calendar/2012/october/dame-darcy-book-release-party-handbook-for-hot-witches
And did a promotion event in Atlanta in which long time DD Patron Amy Carter attended.
While in Savannah, Dame Darcy began to crew for sailboats on the intracostal water way and sailed to Charleston and Florida, then went to Sea School to get a Captains License.
Dame Darcy moved to Savannah, "The Most haunted City In America" to buy a house to make into a Meat Cake Themed Hotel which has plans in the works to be a blend of Dollywood and Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. This hotel will be a music and art venue as well.
In the 1990s, Dame Darcy made a doll for Courtney Love which included hair from the late Kurt Cobain. The doll was a gift to Love's daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Dame Darcy planned to auction some of Kurt Cobain's leftover hair in 2015 but withdrew it following a complaint from Love.
Her teaching experience varies among all ages and contexts. Dame Darcy taught an independent comics publishing course at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, as well as lecturing and workshops at Columbia University, and in Europe and Japan.
Her latest books in 2016 are Lady Killers (Harper Collins), The Jaywalker, with Lisa Carver, Lucky, and other compilations. Dame Darcy's autobiography, Hi Jax & Hi Jinx, is due out from Feral House in 2018, and has a feature film screenplay, with identical name attached. Her self-published Mermaid tarot card decks are independently distributed through www.damedarcy.com on Etsy.