Dame Darcy's Meatcake Compilation (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "THE JUICER WAS A MACHINE THAT GAVE AN ELECTRIC SHOCK AND WITH IT CAME THE CLANGING OF THE THIRTEEN BRASS BELLS ATTACHED TO IT..." (more)

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Imagine what Ernie Bushmiller's astonishingly bland "Nancy" would have been like in Pugsley Addams' hands: still comedically lame but visually intricate and quite depraved--a lot like Darcy's erratically published comic book Meat Cake, which may be much more adventurous and funnier than "Nancy" but not wittier. Like those of seemingly all female alternative-comics creators, Darcy's drawing style is elaborately naive, her material violent and gross, her writing falteringly literate. Her stories are exercises in gothic foolishness featuring absurd characters in Victorian clothing, though Scampi the Selfish Shellfish and Effluvia, a mean mermaid, wear jewelry, maybe, but not clothes. Other principals include Friend the Girl, Richard Dirt (another girl), Siamese twin sisters Hindrance and Perfidia, and the lone male, Wax Wolf, a wolf both were- and figurative, given to exclaiming "Tits ahoy!" before grabbing them. Beating, abandonment, murder, lowering skies, ghosts, and muses abound in the Meat Cake continuum. Unlikely ingredients of a laff riot? Well, the cinema of Ed (Plan 9 from Outer Space) Wood has its admirers (so does "Nancy"). Ray Olson
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books; 1st Fantagraphics Books Ed edition (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560975326
• ISBN-13: 978-1560975328
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #997,665 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Experience Meatcake!, January 23, 2004

By	christin (minneapolis, mn) - See all my reviews

For those of you that aren't familar with Dame Darcy or her Meatcake comics you are in for a treat. Granted there is a certain audience, her comics are a mixture of gothic horror, romance, intrigue, and novelty, so not everyone may appreciate this series. If you like yr comedy noir and can appreciate the idea of mermaids and siamese twins being "normal" girls this should be right up yr alley.
This compliation covers Meatcakes #s 1-7. #0 is missing, but luckily Fantagraphics has reprinted it and it is widely avaiable. (Just go to damedarcy.com for more details.)

The presentation of this edition is stunning, it is hardbound with creamy thick pages and excellent reproductions of her comics.