In the next issue of Meat Cake, Friend the Girl goes off to start an apiary and study under Dr. Granny (also a known beekeeper). Hold your horses for another fairy tale of equine proportions as Dame Darcy delights in 'Ghost Filly' and more murderous rage fills the short stories than you can shake an already-bloodied stick at!

Rich, decadent, delicious, and a little bit dangerous, this heapin' helpin' of Meat Cake is sure to satisfy even the most discriminating palate! Dig in to these tales of depravity, violence, pyromania, and obsession. Dig in to these tales of depravity, violence, pyromania, and obsession with Richard Dirt, Wax Wolf, Hindrance and Perfida, Friend the Girl, Strega Pez and a host of others! Stories such as "Bullets for Breakfast," "Demon Drink," "Twist of Fate," and "Cozy Corner" add up to one of the most unique offerings in comics.

In Dame Darcy's neo-Victorian world of two-headed beauties, mermaids and deathly adventures, the horrible and shadowy people are the most seductive. Most recently seen in Alan Moore's Tomorrow Stories, Dame Darcy continues to delight us with her wicked sense of play with more Meat Cake! This issue: Hindrance and Perfida reclaim their ruby choker stolen by a criminal lady and find Richard's husband in the process, Tommaso Nicolao lends his dark pen to lithely illustrate a tragic ghost story, and fine, delicious recipes from the Latchkey Kids Cookbook. Plus the beautiful continuation of the watery "Planet Blue" story.

The blithely dark shadows of Dame Darcy's seductive Victorian-inspired world cover the surface of yet another intriguing serving of Meat Cake. In this issue: elegant society reveals its true nature with tales of deflowering demons, tea with a couple of Playboy Bunny virgins, a running commentary on Romanians, delinquent dolls, and what happened when Fashion Week met the apocalypse. This one delivers more of the heightened mix of proper etiquette and surreal dreamscapes that has made Dame Darcy a favorite with the lads and lasses over the years!

The blithely dark shadows of Dame Darcy's seductive Victorian-inspired world cover the surface of yet another intriguing serving of Meat Cake. In this issue: Learn along with all the Meat Cake characters as they attend the Bat Institute of Technology and take classes such as Drunken Boxing 101 and Vampire Attack Class, etc.; listen to a fairytale about a witch who instructs a young man how to turn leaves into gold at the cost of trapping his soul in his shadow; and Strega Pez assists her Alzheimer's-stricken grandma by putting signs on everything. This one delivers more of the heightened mix of proper etiquette and surreal dreamscapes that has made Dame Darcy a favorite with the lads and lasses over the years!

Issue Number 16 of author and illustrator Dame Darcy's graphic novel series Meat Cake. Contains four stories and a few one page vignettes.

By Dame Darcy Just because Dame Darcy is seeing a brand new graphic novel released next month (Gasoline, from Merrell Publishers), that doesn't mean she's stopped baking her beloved Meat Cake, and here's a new issue to prove it! In Meatcake #17, God is revealed to the Faeiry Sisters - so of course they get into a fight over it. Also, Trixxie Roxx stars in "The Horrors of Fame," what Darcy describes as "a punk-rock version of those cheesy 1940s romance novels where the girls are going through hyperdrama all the time" - plus more kee-razy neo-Goth fairy-tale madness from one of comics' true originals!

Victorian humor, horror, and romance from a unique comics stylist. One of the most beguiling presences on the comics scene, Dame Darcymusician, actress, cable TV star, fortune teller, dollmaker, and last but not least, cartoonist to the corehas been bewitching readers for over ten years with her neo-Victorian horror/humor/ romance comic Meatcake . Alternating between one-off (often cruelly tragic) fairy tales and ongoing romps starring her eclectic cast of characters, including Effluvia the Mermaid, the roguish roue 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, Meatcake is like a peek into the most creative, deranged dollhouse you ever saw. Dame Darcy's Meatcake Compilation assembles in clothbound luxury the very best from the first decade of Meatcake (including "Hungry Is the Heart," the legendary collaboration with Watchmen's Alan Moore, a big Darcy fan who has worked with her on his ABC Comics)almost 200 pages of wild and woolly comics. Darcy's fans include many of her fellow cartoonists, and such similarly flamboyant personalities as Courtney Love (who once memorably guested on Darcy's cable TV show Turn of the Century ). She also has a huge following in the Goth community, who enjoy her wickedly ghoulish sense of humor and retro art style. 200 pages b/w illustrations.

This updated collection of Dame Darcy’s gothy, punky comics includes her collaboration with Alan Moore. 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. Black & white with 32 pages of color.