Donna Barr

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Donna Barr
Born (1952-08-13) August 13, 1952 (age 71)
Everett, Washington
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Publisher
Notable works
The Desert Peach
Stinz
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Donna Barr (born August 13, 1952) is an American comic book author and cartoonist. She is best known for The Desert Peach and Stinz.

Life and education

Donna Barr was born in Everett, Washington, and is the second child of six. She had earned a bachelor's degree in German from Ohio State University in 1978. Barr had enlisted in the United States Army and served from 1970 to 1973. She was a school trained teletype operator who was an E5, or Sergeant.[1] Because of this position she was not sent into war. Donna Barr had met her husband Dan during her time in the army. She now lives in Clallam Bay, Washington with her husband.[2]

Works

She works in pencil, ink, watercolor, and silkscreen.[2]

She is known for her series

Aeon Press. It was then self-published under A Fine Line Press.[citation needed
]

Her other long-running series,

Aeon Press, and then self-published.[citation needed] The entirety of The Desert Peach series can be found on Webtoons. A Desert Peach musical was produced in 1992 and a novel was published in 2005.[citation needed
]

Both Stinz and The Desert Peach are now largely serialized online and her novels are self-published. Other works include Hader and the Colonel (1987), The Barr Girls (1990), and Bosom Enemies (1987). Barr has also published a number of novels, including Permanent Party, An Insupportable Light, Ringcat and Bread and Swans. The last two of these feature Stinz and The Desert Peach, respectively. Barr has illustrated several GURPS roleplaying books, including GURPS Ice Age and GURPS Callahan's Crosstime Saloon,. and 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.[citation needed] Her latest series, Afterdead, is a crossover of all of her characters. It is said to be politically charged and wild.[6]

Her work has been translated into German, Japanese, Italian, and Croatian. Barr has created a series of handmade ornate, stitchery-covered bound sketchbooks, called the Black Manuscripts.[2]

Awards and accomplishments

Barr and her work have been recognized with numerous awards and honors. These include The

Comics Creators Guild's Best Ongoing Humor Series in 1992, and the Washington Press Association's Communicator of Excellence for Fiction in 1997 and 1998. Barr appeared at the Cartoonists Northwest Association 2016 event and received a Golden Toonie Award.[2]

Involvement

Donna Barr has been involved in the Northwest community as a member of the Graphic Artists Guild, the National Writers Union, UAW/AFL/CIO, and has acted as a consultant for the Media curriculum in the Arts Department at Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington. She lectures on her work at conventions and symposiums all over the United States, Canada, and Europe.[2] She had attended Opttaconn in 2019.[8]

References

  1. ^ Doherty, Jennifer (2016-09-15). "Donna Barr [oral history], Army, Vietnam War, Listen Up! Veterans". Washington Rural Heritage.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Donna Barr Papers, 1963-2014 | Special Collections & University Archives". 2016-03-04. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
  3. ^ a b c "The Friday Review: Seven Peaches/Charger". www.ninthart.org. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
  4. ^ "The Desert Peach #20 ("Fever Dream") by Donna Barr, reviewed by Bruce Asbury". www.gutterfags.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  5. ^ a b "Sequential Tart - A Comics Industry Web Zine: The T&A Issue (Volume II, Issue 2, February 1999)". www.sequentialtart.com. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
  6. ^ "Donna Barr – San Diego Comic Fest". www.sdcomicfest.org. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  7. ^ "Inkpot Award". San Diego Comic-Con. Retrieved Nov 8, 2023.
  8. ^ Barr, Donna (2019-08-18). "The Midnight Library: Opttacon 2019 - 3 Drawn Book tables!". The Midnight Library. Retrieved 2019-11-09.

External links

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