Don't miss these upcoming events with Dame Darcy, promoting her new book, Gasoline:

GASOLINE BOOK RELEASE PARTY
Dame Darcy Book release party Nov 6th 2008
Naughty Nautical Nite presents:
Gasoline
at the Slipper Room
167 Orchard St
New York, NY 10002
9:30---on $5 dolla
Featuring Apocalyptic / fairy themed Cabaret, book signings and costume contest.

GASOLINE BOOK SIGNING
Dame Darcy Gasoline Reading
November 11, 6:30-8:30
Housing Works
Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby St, NYC, 10012
www.housingworksbookstore.org

GASOLINE ART OPENING, NY
Alix Sloan Fine art Gallery Gasoline book release opening November 19th Weds 7-9 pm closing to be December 20th. Gasoline Books to be signed and sold, one of a kind hand drawn single page illos in some books. Original illustrations from Gasoline to be sold and paintings inspired by graphic novel, also music, and fun!

Sloan Fine Art
128 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
212.477.1140
sloanfineart.com

Mike Baehr, Janice Headley and I are headed down Friday for this weekend's Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, and we will be bringing along about 150 comics and books for you to browse and get signed all weekend long by our amazing line-up of attending authors:

Saturday:

11AM Johnny Ryan
12PM Kevin Huizenga & Bob Levin
1PM John Pham & Johnny Ryan
2PM Daniel Clowes & Ted Stearn
3PM Jaime Hernandez & Megan Kelso
4PM Jaime Hernandez & Dame Darcy
5PM From MOME: Jonathan Bennett & Tim Hensley

Sunday: 

11AM Megan Kelso & Kevin Huizenga
12PM Jaime Hernandez & John Pham
1PM Daniel Clowes & Ted Stearn
2PM Dame Darcy
3PM Dame Darcy
4PM Jaime Hernandez & Johnny Ryan

Meanwhile, Jordan Crane, Esther Pearl Watson, Chris Ware (yes, Chris Ware!), and others will also be appearing at the show. How can you miss it? It runs 11 to 7 Saturday and 11 to 6 Sunday. 

Meat Cake #17
By Dame Darcy

Just because Dame Darcy is busy with music, dollmaking, and being a reality TV star, that doesn't mean she's stopped baking her beloved Meat Cake, and here's a new issue to prove it! In Meat Cake #17, God is revealed to the Faeiry Sisters — so of course they get into a fight over it. Also, Trixxie Roxx stars in "The Horrors of Fame," what Darcy describes as "a punk-rock version of those cheesy 1940s romance novels where the girls are going through hyperdrama all the time" — plus more kee-razy neo-Goth fairy-tale madness from one of comics' true originals!

32-page black & white 6.75" x 10.25" comic book • $3.95
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Video & Photo Slideshow Preview:

Courtesy Dame Darcy (sorry, this was a tough one to photograph without getting any glare): 

An enjoyable evening of weird short films, animation and banjo music with Dame Darcy at Show Cave this Saturday in Los Angeles. 1218 1/2 Temple St. 90026. See you there with bows on!

I haven't had a chance to really check this out yet, but Noah Berlatsky has, with the help of a few friends, put together this thing called the Gay Utopia symposium. Both Johnny Ryan and Dame Darcy contributed. There's lots of other comics related stuff too; contributions by Ariel Schrag, Michael Manning, Lilli Carré, Edie Fake, Dewayne Slightweight, and Nishizaka Hiromi, as well as essays and more.