Donna Barr

Background

Barr, Donna was born on August 13, 1952 in Everett, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Donald Martin and Dorothy Cecilia (Krahmer) Colbert.

Education

Bachelor in German Language and Literature, Ohio State University, 1978.

Career

Common elements in her work are fantastic human/animal hybrids and German culture. She is best known for two of her series. One is Stinz (about a society of centaur-like people in a setting reminiscent of pre-industrial Germany).

Originally published in 1986 as a short story in a hand-bound book, it was then serialized in the Eclipse Comics series The Dreamery, edited by Lex Nakashima.

lieutenant was picked up by Albedo creator Steve Gallacci under his Thoughts & Images label, moving on to MU Press and its imprint Aeon Press. lieutenant was then self-published under A Fine Lincolnshire Press.

Her other long-running series, The Desert Peach is about Pfirsich Rommel, the fictional homosexual younger brother of Erwin "The Desert Fox" Rommel. Beginning in 1987, it was set in North Africa during World War 2.

The first three issues were published by Thoughts & Images.

Additional issues were published by Fantagraphics Books, Aeon Press, and then self-published. Other works include Hader and the Colonel, The Barr Girls, and Bosom Enemies. Barr has also recently published a number of novels, including Permanent Party, An Insupportable Light, and Bread and Swans.

The last two of these feature Stinz and The Desert Peach, respectively.

Some of her later books take advantage of the new print-on-demand technologies. Barr has illustrated several GURPS roleplaying books, including GURPS Ice Age and GURPS Callahan"s Crosstime Saloon.

Barr also produced illustrations for the Traveller role-playing books, including Alien Module 8: Darrians, the MegaTraveller Player"s Manual and several issues of both the Journal of the Travellers Aid Society and Challenge magazine.

Achievements

• Donna Barr has been listed as a notable Author, artist, publisher by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Desert Peach #6

    (As per Wikipedia: The Desert Peach is a comic book create...)

  • Stinz, Vol. 3 #8: Playthings

    (This independent episode in the STINZ series reveals what...)

  • Stinz Vol. 3 #7: A Dog's Life

    (Kilan, the Baronin's facehorse and darling simple-minded ...)

  • The Stinz Collection: Volume 1

    (The first volume of the Stinz collection - at last! All t...)

  • Stinz Warhorse

    (Home again in the Geisel valley, Stinz Lowhard must readj...)

  • The Stinz Collection: Volume 2

    (The second volume of the Stinz collection - at last! All ...)

  • The Desert Peach #29: Out of the East

    (Erwin "The Desert Fox" Rommel's fictitious homosexual you...)

  • Stinz, Vol. 3 #6: A Marvelous Resistance

    (Thirty years after The War, the black centaur stallion St...)

  • Stinz III-9: New Souls

    (Just when we've gotten used to seeing Stinz in one role, ...)

  • The Desert Peach Collection; Volume Two (Volume 2)

    (This is the second volume of the big two-volume collectio...)

  • Afterdead 1: Desert Peach #31, #32, and Beyond

    (Afterdead is Donna Barr's complete re-invention of all he...)

  • Stinz: Charger, The War Stories

    (Since l986, the black centaur stallion's life and adventu...)

  • The Desert Peach Collection, Volume Two BY Barr, Donna ( Author ) { Paperback } 2014
  • The Desert Peach: Politics, Pilots, and Puppies

    (The Desert Peach is Pfirsich Rommel, the gay younger brot...)

  • The Desert Peach: Marriage and Mayhem

    (The Desert Peach is Pfirsich Rommel, the gay younger brot...)

  • The Desert Peach: Belief Systems

    (The Desert Peach is Pfirsich Rommel, the gay younger brot...)

  • The Desert Peach #28: Tongue

    (The Peach and the war-orphan Hans find Rosen after the en...)

  • The Desert Peach #27: New and Different

    (The Peach arrives in Africa -- and decides he just has to...)

  • The Desert Peach Foreign Relations (The Desert Peach, Volume 3 comprising issues 7,8,9)

    (Paperback collection of Desert Peach issues by Donna Barr...)

  • The Desert Peach Comics Songbook Spiral

    (The Desert Peach Spiral bound Sonbook 13 songs 79 pages)

  • The Desert Peach #17

    (comic/graphic book, in a mylar comic bag with board. Hist...)

  • Stinz -- Tribals

    (The last issue of the Stinz series will be a party. 26 pa...)

  • The Desert Peach Collection; Volume One (Volume 1)

    (“The Desert Peach is such an original work. Most of the s...)

  • DESERT PEACH #21. The Good Uncle

    (graphic novel paperback comic book)

  • Stinz: Horsebrush and Other Tales

    (large comic book, graphic comics)

  • Seven Peaches: The First Seven Desert Peach Episodes

    (The Desert Fox's Gay Brother. How ridiculous. How sublime...)

  • Pithed -- Desert Peach #31

    (64 full-color pages. Based on the long-running drawn-book...)

  • Stinz Volume 2, #3

    (paperback comic book)

  • Stinz: Wartime and Wedding Bells

    (Book by Barr, Donna)

  • The Desert Peach #26: Miki

    (April 1945. Hauptmann Kjars Winzig and Unteroffizier Udo ...)

  • The Desert Peach #25 (#25)
  • The Desert Peach Collection; Volume Two (Volume 2) by Donna Barr (2013-02-01)
  • The Desert Peach; Baby Games Vol. 4 in series
  • Stinz: Charger, The War Stories by Donna Barr (April 1, 1999) Paperback
  • The Desert Peach: Self-Propelled Target: #19
  • The Desert Peach Collection; Volume One (Volume 1) by Donna Barr (2013-04-04)
  • Desert Peach Issue 5 (MU Press)
  • Desert Peach: Beginnings
  • Stinz : Number 1 : August 1989
  • The Desert Peach #10

Membership

With United States Army, 1970-1973. Member National Writers Union, Cartoonists Northwest, Friends of Lulu, Graphic Artists Guild.

Interests

• Avocations: gardening, camping, rescuing animals. E-mail: [email protected].

Connections

Married Daniel E. Barr, August 9, 1974.

Father:

Donald Martin Colbert

Mother:

Dorothy Cecilia (Krahmer) Colbert

Spouse:

Daniel E. Barr