Dame Darcy

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Darcy Megan Stanger, born June 11 1971 in Caldwell, Idaho, known professionally as Dame Darcy, is one of today's most popular and well-regarded alternative comics artists. Her comic book, Meatcake, has been published by Fantagraphics since 1993.

Dame Darcy attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Her visual aesthetic has been equally influenced by underground cartoonists and illustrators in the Victorian tradition like Sir John Tenniel and Edward Gorey.

She is also a musician and performer of unique and experimental combinations of bluegrass music, Americana, classic Expressionism and transgressive aesthetics. Her colaborations with Caroliner Rainbow, Lisa Crystal Carver's Suckdog, Rock Rock Chicken Pox and other musicians have inspired members of the avant-garde such as Thurston Moore.

Her newest music group is Death By Doll, whose core members are Benjamin Mahoney and Aaron Detroit. Death By Doll's now-completed debut album Gasoline, features songs based on Dame Darcy's graphic-novel and in-development feature-length film of the same name, and is slated for release in Late 2005/early 2006 on Emperor Penguin Recordings.

Turn of the Century, Darcy's weekly television collaboration with Blessed Elysium's Lisa Hammer, lasted from 1996-1999, on New York Public Access. The pair created hundreds of hours of original drama and comedy in a German Expressionist style, utilizing New York underground personalities like Jennifer Nixon (aka Queen Itchie), Peter Moran, Bliss Blood, Banjo Pete, Miller Duvall, Secretary Jenny, Cynthia Mitchell, Patrick O'Clock (aka Patrick Hambrecht), Jasper McVain, Daisy Miller, Li'l Sweetie, Countessa Cinorre, and Duchess Daria (aka Daria Klotz), among others. The show also randomly featured celebrity actors like Thurston Moore, Courtney Love, and Tiny Tim in its Caligari-like featurettes. New York Magazine cited the show as the best public access show of 1997; it has since been released in a retail "Best of" Collection and is syndicated on public access stations across the country.

Dame Darcy has recently expanded into clothing design with Mindy LeBrock, releasing her B.I.T. (Bat Institute of Technology) series in a fashion show with Margaret Cho at Los Angeles's Congo Room in June 2004.

Trivia

Dame Darcy was once on the show Blind Date.

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