We’ve all met people with cool jobs we’d like to have. But have you ever run into someone who has pretty much every job you’ve ever wanted to have? Understand, then, reader, my extreme envy for Dame Darcy, the Los Angeles-based comics artist, filmmaker, publisher, touring musician, fashion and interior designer, dollmaker and teacher (in no particular order) who is showing original work from her 2008 graphic novel, “Gasoline,” at Civilian Art Projects in the Penn Quarter through Feb. 7. (For the record, I’ve never wanted to be a dollmaker or an interior designer.)

Darcy started her offbeat comics series “Meat Cake” in 1989, while she was still a teenager attending the San Francisco Art Institute on scholarship. The respected independent publisher Fantagraphics picked up “Meat Cake” in 1992, after Darcy moved to New York, finding work with outlets from The Village Voice to the Cartoon Network. She continued to publish her black-and-white series of Victorian-flavored fairy tales sporadically, while teaching cartooning and self-publishing at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and performing music with the likes of Sonic Youth and the John Spencer Blues explosion. Her current musical outlet is the goth band Death by Doll, wherein Darcy sings and plays bass. The group has released a CD of original songs, also titled “Gasoline,” to accompany the book. Darcy also plans a feature film adaptation, to be a hybrid of live action and animation.