Dame Darcy

Darcy Megan Stanger, known professionally as Dame Darcy is one of the most popular and well-regarded alternative comics artists today. Her visual aesthetic has been informed equally by underground cartoonists and illustrators in the

Darcy Megan Stanger, known professionally as Dame Darcy is one of the most popular and well-regarded alternative comics artists today. Her visual aesthetic has been informed equally by underground cartoonists and illustrators in the Victorian tradition like Sir John Tenniel and Edward Gorey. Her comic book, Meatcake, has been published by Fantagraphics since 1993.

She is also an experimental musician/performer whose work with Caroliner Rainbow, Lisa Crystal Carver's Suckdog, Rock Rock Chicken Pox and other collaborations/solo ventures have inspired other members of the avant-garde including Thurston Moore, for the way she has combined bluegrass music and Americana with a unique combination of classic Expressionism and transgressive aesthetics. Her newest music project is Death By Doll, whose core members are Benjamin Mahoney and Aaron Detroit. Death By Doll's now-completed debut album Gasoline, featuring songs based on Dame Darcy's grapic-novel and in-delvelopment feature-length film of the same name, is slated for release in Late 2005/early 2006 on Emperor Penguin Recordings.