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Donna Barr
Donna Barr's series THE DESERT PEACH -- about the Desert Fox's fictional gay brother -- and STINZ -- the life of a black centaur stallion and BOSOM ENEMIES -- about two men, originally bitter enemies, trapped in a nightmare of slavery for a lifetime -- are only a few of her wonderful stories.
For even more of Donna's books, head over to The Bookstore. Indian Subcontinent: why pay RS 1300 for ONE issue of Stinz from 1985, when you can get a box full of issues of everything from the shelves for $30.00 + postage?
If you missed the free March download event, there's still lots of fun things to do at the Facebook Comicon and at Donna's Table on the convention floor.
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An Insupportable Light
An Insupportable Light is the original Stinz novel, featuring Donna Barr's half-horse hero back when she thought of him as having two legs instead of four.
The story begins at the end of one war, with the hope of peace. Then one small incident after another, building and combining like pebbles tossed down a slope, become an avalanche of misunderstandings, broken hearts, fury and revenge.
It's about how wars start: nobody wants them, nobody can see them coming and nobody can stop them.
“This is not so much a story about a war as it is a portrait of human folly at its most resplendent. It is as poignant and relevant today as it was when humanity first formed civilizations; as it will be so long as we exist.”
-- Carlos F. Chancellor, Tales from the Cold; The Comic Art of the Northwest.
Print: $17.65
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Permanent Party
“Permanent Party is – what? A Vietnam-era W.A.C.’s Catch-22? A roman-à-clef? A murder mystery? A poetic memoir? Barr’s ear for dialogue is flawless, her descriptions of human physiognomy hilarious. The dramatic rhythm is sporadic and punctuated, deliberately defying the breathless crescendi of fiction with the unresolved panics and careless lulls of real life in a gigantic bureaucracy. Small, throwaway bits of telling detail -- peeling paint chips, a dog’s sneeze on being patted, the smell of chicken frying -- give the entire book a sensuous texture. The characters in this woman’s Army are so steeped in weirdness they wouldn’t have been out of place in my college dorm (and we were the campus hippies).”
-- E.J. Barnes, Tales Of The Ling Master
Print: $12.12
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Bread and Swans
"Bread and Swans" follows the life of Pfirsich Rommel, leading man of the long-running drawn-book series "The Desert Peach." From their first childhood spats Pfirsich acts as the conscience and alter-ego of his famous historical brother, the Desert Fox, blending plain fact with pure imagination. We need bread, but there should be swans. Never forgetting that bread nourishes - and our swans can drown us.***"This is a fun and fascinating fiction that puts the 'story' in history, and makes 'history' all too recognizable for today's reader. Donna has a gift of exploring why people do the things they do... and why they are doomed to repeat history." -- Roberta Gregory, "Naughty Bits."
Print: $14.14
Download: $1.24
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The Desert Peach Collection, Volume Two
“Donna Barr's war-time comedy drama sees the gay brother of Rommel lead a band of misfits in the Africa Korps. "Desert Peach" soon found a stride that has escaped all other war comics. Blending humour and drama without sacrificing either, "Desert Peach" eschews easy answers or code morality, to portray a story of duty and honour, of doing what you can in whatever situation you are in, and finding your true nature. Very poignant without being schmaltzy, 'Desert Peach' is an odd mixture. It shouldn't work but it does.”
-- Richard Johnston, Lying In The Gutters
Print: $19.61
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The Desert Peach Collection, Volume One
“The Desert Peach is such an original work. Most of the stories take place during WWII, in North Africa, among German soldiers under the command of Colonel Pfirsich Rommel, the brother of Erwin Rommel, the famous 'Desert Fox.' Pfirsich is probably one of the most interesting characters in comics. If only all fiction tried to be as honest and open-minded as this, I’m naive enough to think, the world would be a better place. After all, fiction shapes our dreams and aspirations. And we could all do worse than let ourselves dream of having tea in the North African desert with a man as utterly charming as Pfirsich Rommel.”
-- Francois Peneaud: The Gay Comics List
Print: $19.55
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Pithed -- Desert Peach #31
64 full-color pages. Based on the long-running drawn-book series, The Desert Peach. "There’s nothing innocent in Pithed. It is a nihilistic nightmare, a bad LSD-trip into human failure, guilt and resignation. The future, along with (the Desert Peach)Pfirisch’s descendents, is portrayed as a climax of darkness and senselessness. A place with a destroyed nature, where pure air is dealt like drugs are today and where babies are sharp-toothed monsters. Evolution’s response to centuries-long child-abuse!
The Peach finds himself as a terrifying zombie in a bizarre hell. The Peach a doomed soul - who would have guessed? A self-made hell, because Pfirsich couldn’t forgive himself for having once called the Gypsies 'those people.'
And yes, Hell probably is always self-made. A place of one’s own unforgiveness." -- Diana Sasse, "Tales of The Antique Whitehouse."
Print: $20.60
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Keeper -- Desert Peach #32
64 black-and-white pages. The Desert Peach has been dead for 6000 years. So it's about time he found his way into the Afterlife. As Afterdead, he still has to eat and make a living, and he gets some very dubious help. At least now he's got a cell-phone.
Print: $7.34
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AfterDead -- Desert Peach #31, 32 and Beyond.
222 black-and-white pages. The Desert Peach and Stinz series continue -- but in a whole new form. 222 black-and-white pages, 64 of them in grey wash, include "Pithed," and "Keeper," also available at Lulu. The Desert Fox's gay brother sees the Reich as his Afterlife -- and the black centaur is a Reichisch officer. Donna Barr has re-invented her books, once again.
(333 page Color version, with extra prose pages, SOON at Amazon.com)
Review: Broken Frontier
Print: $10.50
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AFTERDEAD 1.2 -- A Beautiful Death
This book is the first 64 pages after the original AFTERDEAD. "A Beautiful Death" tells the story of the Desert Peach in an afterlife completely unlike anything he'd expected. In the AfterReich, the black centaur stallion Stinz has been chosen for the honor of breeding for the Reich. He wants the Desert Fox's gay brother to accompany him for moral support, especially against his own wife, who is SO PROUD of him. Pope Rosen takes on the Mormon breeding-farm commandant. A roller-derby queen and company officer is invited to her brother’s prisoner wedding -- with him as the wife. The Peach brings plenty of hankies. "A Beautiful Death" is the full-color version of the black and white version, originally published as "The Desert Peach Crosses Over." That version is out of print.
Print: $19.33
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AFTERDEAD 1.2 -- The Desert Peach Crosses Over
This book is the first 64 pages after the original AFTERDEAD. 'The Desert Peach Crosses Over,’ applies in every way that phrase can be read. The black centaur stallion Stinz has been chosen for the honor of breeding for the Reich. He wants the Desert Fox's gay brother to accompany him for moral support, especially against his own wife, who is SO PROUD of him. Pope Rosen takes on the Mormon breeding-farm commandant. A roller-derby queen and company officer is invited to her brother’s prisoner wedding -- with him as the wife. The Peach brings plenty of hankies.
Print: $9.22
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AFTERDEAD 1.3 -- Hunters and Hunted Black and White
The lives and afterlives of the Desert Peach and Stinz continue. At a roller derby tournament – Rosen is a huge fan -- the Peach meets an old friend from the Quick Times. A questionable treasure brings back memories of an old war. The Peach loses his lunch – and his head – at After Reichisch entertainment. The beautifully-toned grayscale version.
Print: $7.03
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AFTERDEAD 1.3 -- Hunters and Hunted
The lives and afterlives of the Desert Peach and Stinz continue. At a roller derby tournament – Rosen is a huge fan -- the Peach meets an old friend from the Quick Times. A questionable treasure brings back memories of an old war. The Peach loses his lunch – and his head – at After Reichisch entertainment. In rich and lively full color.
Print: $19.80
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The Grandmother's Hive
An old house is the source of fear and suspicion for the neighborhood children; one small boy discovers his fears were standing between him and the funnest family he's ever met. Beautiful illustrations and ornate poetry will delight both children and adults.
Print: $15.80
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Ringcat
Henning Asbach is an SS officer assigned to investigate a series of grave robberies in the backwater province called The Share. But the assignment won’t be as easy as he imagined, as the close-mouthed inhabitants of the Share seem to be hiding an even more terrible secret.
Ringcat is both touching and horrific, a tale of a Third Reich that never was.
It is in the form of a prose novelette, spiced throughout with elegant illustrations served in portions from the original Black Manuscript story.
Print: $9.16
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Angels and Vampires
22 wondrous color watercolor and gouache paintings, by the author of the classic drawn-book series "The Desert Peach" and "Stinz." Are these beautiful winged women spirits of light, or the Undead in flight? The author leaves that up to the reader. Your vampire may be someone else's angel. Each painting is done in a different style, including science-fiction and fantasy illustration, religious icons and folk or vision paintings.
Print: $12.30
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Peach Slices
Peach Slices 2nd Edition: The Director's Cut. Filled with the Peachy Short stories, one-shots, and small press material of the original, this time with additional background information and full creator screen commentary. This book also contains "Beautiful", The Desert Peach issue #25, that went out of print because it sold out so quickly. Featuring the younger Pfirsich in Transylvania during WWI, and a handsome gentleman in a castle who may or may not be whom we expect.
Print: $8.66
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The Ambush; A Stinz series novelette
Stinz is the hero of the self-named drawn-book series. He's a big, black centaur stallion. Sergeant Kirschen was his drill sergeant in the army. The handsome Kirschen is a tough DI, but he's not so tough around the ladies. One of my readers commissioned this story of seduction and romance. Kirschen is the stalkee, not the stalker. The one illustration shows him looking rather snappy in a nice suit.
Print: $7.42
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The Desert Peach Collection, Volume 2
"Peach Pie," The Desert Peach Collection, Volume 2 collects issues 8-14 of the long-running series following the life and time of the Desert Fox's gay brother, Pfirsich Rommel. The full two-volume collection available on this page are printed as being more cost-effective for the whole series, 1-30, truly pushing the Lulu file-size limts for single books. "Peach Pie" contains paper dolls and the Rommel family stories, which the larger 2-volume collection on this site does not.
Print: $12.75
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