Donna Barr
Out-Of-Print to Print-On-Demand Press Release
Submitted by DonnaBarr on August 30, 2009 - 20:27
For immediate release:
August 30, 2009
Contact information:
Donna Barr, A Fine Line Press
donnabarr01@gmail.com 360 963 2935
Xeric-grant funded “Seven Peaches†sells out.
“Seven Peaches,†a collection of the first seven Desert Peach episodes that was funded by the Xeric Grant, has sold out.
Donna Barr Roberta
Submitted by DonnaBarr on August 12, 2009 - 00:48
Donna Barr, Roberta Gregory at ECCC! http://ping.fm/ipyuG
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-emergency-website.html
Toonie Awards Banquet Address
Submitted by DonnaBarr on March 15, 2009 - 21:58
You're Doing It Wrong
(With stage directions)
By Donna Barr for the Cartoonists Northwest 2009 Toonie Awards Banquet
First, I'd like to thank the CNW folks for asking me to address this (pause) – I almost typed “August Body.†But who wants to start with irony? I believe the official collective noun for cartoonists is – “The Usual Gang of Idiots.†And proud of it!
If you don't get it, corner Basil's granddaughter afterwards (point at her) and ask her to explain.
Strip News 2-16-9
Submitted by Delos on February 16, 2009 - 10:00
Here’s more comic stuff that caught my eye…
Peachy Keen: An Interview with Donna Barr
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Donna Barr was born in the mill town of Everett, WA. She is a prolific cartoonist and writer who embraced the web relatively early on as a means to further expose the public to her creative work. She is probably best known for her comic series, The Desert Peach, about Pfirsich Rommel, the fictional homosexual younger brother of Erwin "The Desert Fox" Rommel -- it has been in publication since 1988. Another comic series from Barr is titled Stinz -- it is about Steinheld Löwhard, a centaur in an imaginary land called Gieselthal where humans and centaurs live.
I got a chance to interview her via email over the last couple of months and really enjoyed our exchange.
Season's Greetings, 2008
Submitted by DonnaBarr on December 1, 2008 - 14:52
Happy Holidays!
Whatever or whenever you're celebrating, may you have lots of friends, family, food and brights lights -- and JUST enough snow for snowballs.
The AFTERDEAD gang posed for the attached card.
Donna Barr
Slamming the Gates -- Or Opening them.
Submitted by DonnaBarr on November 29, 2008 - 13:47
I just sent this email to a bookstore in response to their youtube description of another funnel site (keeping authors going through one gateway):
Hi -- I'm joining IndieBound.org at your Facebook (video) suggestion.
Now -- I love independent bookstores. But as an author, I can't afford to lock myself into one seller base. I use Lulu.com, Dimestoreproductions.com, Booksurge.com, Amazon -- whatever it takes.
Dimestore and Booksurge work to keep customer costs and carbon footprint down by direct ordering. A retailer can get POD books at near wholesale through Lulu or Booksurge.
However, any retailer that tries to funnel authors through one gateway -- and penalizes those authors for refusing to use only one gateway -- is going to find authors selling everywhere except that gateway -- and the one with the gate ends up being the only one behind it. Even Diamond Comics is figuring this out (say what you will about them, they're trying).
I WANT to keep small independent bookstores running. But can you use POD the way it was meant to be used -- without distributors, without returns and shredding?
I know Amazon makes you crazy -- but it fills a huge customer need. Indie bookstores worked with distributors to limit our customer contact and sales. Why go to your bookstore when they can only get it on Amazon? By using Lulu and Booksurge you can get the Amazon rates -- near wholesale -- without distribution or extra fees, or order limits. You can compete.
It's where it's going. Help keep indie bookstores strong by joining where the authors are going."
Visit Donna Barr's The Little Store
AFTERDEAD 1.3 -- "Hunter and Hunted"
Submitted by DonnaBarr on October 17, 2008 - 12:19
AFTERDEAD 1.3 – HUNTER AND HUNTED, by Donna Barr, $15.95, shipping in February 2009 from A FINE LINE PRESS.
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.
