Hi Jax and Hi Jinx
Life's a Pitch – and then you Live Forever
Hi Jax and Hi Jinx is a black-humored, edgy social comedy based on the real-life experiences of cartoonist and musician/performance artist Dame Darcy, creator of the comix series Meat Cake. Her Gothic Lolita?punk/dada life is a no?holds?barred fight for social justice. Allying herself with witches, the LBGTQ community, billionaires, and Native Americans, Dame Darcy takes on reality television, self-publishing, fine art exhibition, movie production, the patriarchy and the soaring cost of higher education.
“Darcy’s comics are an aesthetic manifesto… Darcy is a star. Mark my words.” —The New York Times
“Her imagery and style may have caught on in the wide world, but the originals are as menacing as ever.” — NPR Book
“She is the Earth’s manifestation of true love. Her desires are delivered through the sensual art of music, lyrics, and visual magic. Dame Darcy is an artist worthy of obsession.” —Thurston Moore, Musician
“Her work is a young Miss Haversham stripped naked by John Ruskin, or at least that’s one of the many delicious images that spring to my mind from the exquisitely strange pages by the ingenious and inexhaustible Dame Darcy!” —Guy Maddin, Filmmaker
“Darcy makes mad and beautiful work.” —Alan Moore comic book artist and author of The Watchmen and V for Vendetta
“Dame Darcy’s art resides at the crossroads between instinct and intellect, and every witch knows how powerful it is to bury talismans in that location. The Intersection. It’s the only place to cast a good spell. ” —Margaret Cho
With 50 plus internationally published graphic novels, cartoonist Dame Darcy is an essential voice in women’s art and cartooning. In 2016, her 500-page, career-spanning comic compilation Meat Cake Bible was published by Fantagraphics.
WEST COAST TOUR DATES
Feb. 23rd Saturday
7pm
Book Signing / Reading
Wacko Le luz de Jesus
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles , CA 90027
Feb. 27th Weds.
Santa Barbara Radio show
(to be announced)
Feb. 28th Thurs.
7pm
Book Signing / Reading
Mission Comics & Art
2250 Mission St.
Fan Francisco, CA 94110
March 1st Friday
7pm
Book Signing / Reading
Escapist Comic Bookstore
3090 Claremont Ave.
Berkley, CA 94705
March 2nd Saturday
6-9pm
(Arts Alive Eureka)
Book Signing / Reading
Shipwreck
0408 430 3rd st.
Eureka, CA 95501
March 3rd Sunday
8pm-12
Monster Women
Dame Darcy
Music plus book reading/signing
Sirens Song
325 2nd St.
Eureka, CA 95501
March 6th Wednesday
Noon-4pm
Book Signing / Reading
Aquarius Books
528 NE E. St.
Grants Pass, OR
97526
March 8th Friday
7pm
Music & Book Signing / Reading
Calvin Johnson (K Records)
Browers Bookshop
107 Capitol Way
N. Olympia 98501
March 9th Saturday
7pm
Book Signing / Reading
Fantagraphics Bookstore
1201 S. Vale St.
Seattle, WA 98108
March 10th Sunday
6-9pm
Sailor Hank Productions Presents
Rainbowgore Cake Not So Sweet 16
Birthday Bash
Music & Book Signing / Reading
Rainbowgore Cake
Jackie
Josh Hartvigson
Fred Wildlife Refuge
128 Boylston Ave. E.
Seattle WA
March 12th Tuesday
6-8pm
Art Show & Book Signing / Reading
Floating World Comics and Gallery
400 NW Couch St.
Portland OR 97209
March 13th Weds.
10-11:00am
PNCA (Pacific Northwest College of Art)
Lecture & Book Signing / Reading