Dame Darcy

Darcy Megan Stanger (born June 19, 1971, in Caldwell, Idaho), better known by the pen name Dame Darcy is an alternative cartoonist, fine artist, musician, cabaret performer, and animator/filmmaker.Her "Neo-Victorian" comic book series Meat Cake was published by Fantagraphics Books from 1993–2008.The Meat Cake Bible compilation was released in June 2016 and nominated for The Eisner Award July 2017.Vegan Love written by Maya Gottfried and Illustrated by Dame Darcy were Silver medalist winners of the Independent Publishing Awards in 2018.Her self published Tarot decks, went viral world wide in 2012 with a second wave in 2018 for the Dame Darcy Mermaid Tarot Gold Edition deck and Queen Alice Tarot deck and were listed as Etsy Bestsellers in 2018.Dame Darcy's autobiography graphic novel, Hi Jax & Hi Jinx (Life's a Pitch and Then You Live Forever) is published by Feral House in 2018. Other graphic novels include Handbook for Hot Witches, The Illustrated Jane Eyre, Frightful Fairytales, Gasoline, and Dollerium. She 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 published about 100 books internationally, with her comics being translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, among others.Her films and animation won awards and been shown internationally.Her fine art and dolls were exhibited and sold in art galleries globally for more than 20 years.In the late 1990s director Lisa Hammer, and Dame Darcy produced a variety TV show entitled Turn Of The Century profiling their short "silent film" style movies for Manhattan Public access, which are now part of the Getty Museum Collection