Dame Darcy is one of the most beguiling presences on the comics scene:musician, actress, cable TV star, fortune teller, dollmaker, fashion designerand last but not least, cartoonist to the core - and has been bewitching readersfor over 15 years with her neo-Victorian horror/humor/ romance comicMeatcake. Alternating between one-off (often cruelly tragic) fairy talesand ongoing romps starring her eclectic cast of characters, including Effluviathe Mermaid, the roguish roué Wax Wolf, Igpay the Pig-Latin pig,Stregapez (a women who speaks by dispensing Pez-like tablets through a bloodyhole in her throat), the mischievous Siamese twins Hindrance and Perfidia,Scampi the Selfish Shellfish, the stalwart Friend the Girl, and the blondebombshell Richard Dirt, all delineated in her inimitable luxurious scrawl,Meatcake is like a peek into the most creative, deranged dollhouse youever saw.