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Donna Barr has been a published author, artist and/or publisher since 1986. Her 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 the wonderful stories she's told. People from all over the globe are into her books, including a market that showed up in Eastern Europe and Australia; with the help of Lulu she's bound to slip into Japan. Go to Stinz.com and Modern Tales For her other books and art (including the offset version of Stinz: Tribals. Check out Moderntales Swapmeet. And don't miss out on CafePress Shirts and CafePress Cats. And the yummiest site ever: DeviantArt. Warning: You can get hooked!

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

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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."

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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.

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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. Volume 1 still available at www.stinz.com, for a short time -- but it's nearly sold out! The Desert Peach Collection, Volume 2, has been REVISED and IMPROVED after the initial upload. Previous versions no longer available; extant copies very rare. (Note for the collector: Comic Book pricing companies have agreed that such copies, being very rare, become immediately collectible when no longer readily available. The acid-free paper on which the books are printed adds to the value. It will not yellow or flake over time; this has been tested for copies up to 12 years old).

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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.

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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.

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Transformations
A little-known fantasy genre is "TF," for "Transformation," about men turning into horses and donkeys against their wills; that's the central theme of this book, a collection of stories and one short novel, originally written for one customer. The book does need editing/proofing; it's loaded more to store it and make it available for now. Reviewers have asked why certain stories were not followed up, but that's for the next customer who wants to buy the author's time.

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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.

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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.

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Angels and Vampires
22 wondrous color watercolor and gauche 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.

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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.

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Yes, T. Brian Wagner and I watching the development of a score for another musical. Go Look

Posted on Wednesday 21 of June, 2006 [01:54:08 UTC]

"Tangle Britches" was my mother's name for blobs of raised white bread dough dropped into hot fat. The name is an American mistranslation of the German "Dangly little bits of bread." They were brown and crisp and greasy, like Fry Bread but shaped like tiny planets with hairy tentacles. We tore them open to reveal tender soft centers, and slathered them with butter and strawberry jam.

My writing is like them; sweet, chewy, and will burn the hell out of you if you don't let 'em cool first.

Posted on Tuesday 30 of May, 2006 [01:25:16 UTC]