One issue of
Meat Cake was published in 1992 by
Caliber Press. In 1993 Fantagraphics picked up
Meat Cake as an ongoing series, starting over the numbering with issue #1. Early issues were produced approximately every 6 months, but by issue #8, only one issue was published per year, until issue #17 (2008). No new issues of
Meat Cake have appeared since.
Collected editions • ''Dame Darcy's Meat Cake Compilation'' (Fantagraphics, 2003; reprint edition, 2010) — collects material from the first decade of the comic; includes "Hungry is the Heart", a collaboration between Dame Darcy and
Alan Moore •
The Meat Cake Bible (Fantagraphics, 2016) — every story from all 17 issues (1993-2008), as well as new stories from the unpublished 18th issue == Recurring characters ==