Meat Cake

Meat Cake
The cover of Meat Cake #1 (Fantagraphics, 1993), artwork by Dame Darcy.
Publication information
PublisherCaliber Press
Fantagraphics
ScheduleAnnually
Publication date1992–2008
No. of issues17
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
Created byDame Darcy
Written byDame Darcy
Artist(s)Dame Darcy
Editor(s)Gary Groth
Collected editions
Dame Darcy's Meat Cake CompilationISBN 978-1560975328
The Meat Cake BibleISBN 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 to 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]

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