Meat Cake (comics)

Meat Cake

The cover of Meat Cake #1 (Fantagraphics, 1993). Artwork by Dame Darcy.
Publication information
Publisher Caliber Press
Fantagraphics
Schedule Annually
Format Ongoing series
Publication date 1992 – 2008
Number of issues 17
Main character(s) Effluvia the Mermaid, Wax Wolf, Igpay the Pig Latin pig, Stregapez, Hindrance and Perfidia, Scampi the Selfish Shellfish, Friend the Girl, Richard Dirt
Creative team
Writer(s) Dame Darcy
Artist(s) Dame Darcy
Creator(s) Dame Darcy
Editor(s) Gary Groth
Collected editions
Dame Darcy's Meat Cake Compilation ISBN 978-1560975328
The Meat Cake Bible ISBN 978-1606999103

Meat Cake is a comic book series written and drawn by Dame Darcy. Originally published by Caliber Press, Meat Cake was published by Fantagraphics in the United States from 1993 – 2008.

Meat Cake has been described as "neo-Victorian,"[1] with each issue containing a collection of stories featuring a cast of oddball characters. All the same, Meat Cake was characterized by one critic as extremely personal: "the aesthetic that made Meatcake so distinctive wasn't cultivated; it was who [Dame Darcy] was, and how she was."[2]

Publication history

One issue of Meat Cake was published in 1992 by Caliber Press.

In 1993 Fantagraphics picked up Meat Cake as an ongoing series, starting over the numbering with issue #1. Early issues were produced approximately every 6 months, but by issue #8, only one issue was published per year, until issue #17 (2008). No new issues of Meat Cake have appeared since.

Collected editions

Recurring characters

References

  1. Kirchner, Lisa. "Books: Meatcake," Bust. Accessed June 10, 2016.
  2. Weaver, Damien. "An Interview with Dame Darcy," Bookslut (April 2004).
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