Research Catalog

Title

Meat cake bible / Dame Darcy.

Author

Darcy, Dame, 1971-

Publication

• Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

447 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Summary

Dame Darcy is one of the sui generis artistic talents of the past two decades -- musician, actress, fortune teller, dollmaker, Gen X/feminist icon, and last but not least, cartoonist to the core -- and has been bewitching readers for over 20 years with her neo-Victorian horror/humor/romance comic Meat Cake. Alternating between one-off (often cruelly tragic) fairy tales and ongoing romps starring her eclectic cast of characters, including Effluvia the Mermaid, the roguish roué Wax Wolf, Igpay the Pig-Latin pig, Stregapez (a women who speaks by dispensing Pez-like tablets through a bloody hole in her throat), the mischievous Siamese twins Hindrance and Perfidia, Scampi the Selfish Shellfish, the stalwart Friend the Girl, and the blonde bombshell Richard Dirt, all delineated in her inimitable luxurious scrawl, Meat Cake is like a peek into the most creative, deranged dollhouse you ever saw. The Meat Cake Bible is the definitive collection of the series, collecting every story from all 17 issues (1993-2008) -- including "Hungry Is the Heart," Darcy's legendary collaboration with Alan Moore -- as well as new stories from the unpublished 18th issue.

Uniform Title

Meat cake

Alternative Title

• Meat cake
• Meatcake bible

Subjects

• Comics (Graphic works)
• Graphic novels
• Comic books, strips, etc
• Fairy tales > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

• Graphic novels
• Comics (Graphic works)
• Graphic novels.

Note

• Collects all seventeen issues in addition to new material created for this collection.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The juicer and the cake walk -- Laughing all the way to the bank -- The wishing star -- Shrimpboats is a-comin' (the sales are in sight) -- The next holy virgin -- Employ ahoy! -- Happy filly -- Am old nursery rhyme -- Busted -- The days of the week / written by Hans Christian Andersen -- Invisible aviator girl -- The vegetable band -- Trouble double -- Diagram of a possessed snail -- October -- Hookie lau breakfast special -- Trick? or treat! -- Fennel's adventure -- Untitled -- The hitch hiker -- Diamonds, hearts, clubs, spades -- In the pines where the sun never shines -- For whom the bell tolls -- Tale of Angie / Excerpt from National Enquirer, transcribed from the Bertice Berry Show -- Grave concerns -- Catastrophe -- Vivisected seafood hooptrick extravaganza! -- An old nursery rhyme -- Stained glass -- More happy hi-jinx! -- God is our fortress and our rock / Martin Luther -- Existence forgets -- Spontaneous generation -- A lesson on the principles of magnetism -- Learn CPR -- Will o' the wisp octopus -- Octagens chaps -- The great old guy with the wax head debate -- The grandmother -- Honey -- The ghost filly -- Swift and vengeful punishment to those who deserve it -- Lucky wishes -- Dirty rich -- Pseudo-autonomous Ezmerelda rises from the deep -- Paper doll fun! -- Bronwyn and Alifair -- Sobriety straight -- Demon drink -- Cosy corner -- Twist of fate -- Bullets for breakfast -- Three little babes -- Take out -- Drucilla's awakening -- Treasure chest -- Case in points -- The puppet show -- Hey kids! It's amazing!
• Hungry is the heart / wriiten by Alan Moore -- Meat cake -- Dress delirium -- Meat cake -- Sweet William and Lady Margaret -- The present your future -- Meat cake -- Planet blue -- Planet blue pt. 2 -- Tour diary -- Silver lining -- EZ bake coven -- Untitled -- Fruit bat -- My patron -- Latch key kids cook -- Show me my hand -- Luna -- Mini hands the Devil's workshop -- A scare-y story / wriiten by Samantha Cretella -- Pluto tries to become a circus dog -- If it's sex you're looking for / co-wriiten by Rocco, the ''Handsome" -- The story of Rapunzel / co-wriiten by Victor Cretella -- The impermeable egg / co-wriiten by Nora Keyes -- The golden keys / adapted from Grimm's Fairytales -- Meat cake movie reviews -- Old timer's disease -- The bat institute of technology (B.I.T.) -- Hold a lover spell -- Hat attack -- The ides of March -- B.I.T. public service announcement -- Naughty nighties -- Magic dolls -- The zombie survival test -- Handbook for hot witches -- Bat institute of technology -- The red bird -- Chupacabre -- Science un-fair -- Magnetism -- Untitled -- Nails -- How to paint a swirl -- A dirty rainbow -- Cold blows the wind -- Secret language of flowers -- The boys of summer -- Drivers ed -- The exorsisters -- Spells -- Mermaid hair growth spell -- Picture perfect -- We are the foe and there is no death -- Rockstar romance -- Untitled -- Knitting -- Spider silk tropics -- Photo gallery -- Recipes -- Le Fantome Chateau -- Cover gallery.

ISBN

• 1606999109
• 9781606999103

OCLC

• 911364524
• SCSB-11295667

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library