Who
is... Donna Barr? Donna
Barr has been drawing since 1954, writing since 1962, published since 1986,
and publishing since 1996.
She has a Bachelors' Degree in German, and
is a veteran of the United States Army (1970-1973).
Readers worldwide
follower her THE DESERT PEACH, STINZ, BOSOM ENEMIES, HADER
AND THE COLONEL, among others.
She is recognized by her peers as
a pioneer in the field of drawn books and their use in new technologies of distribution
and reproduction. She is a contributor to the world's largest webcomics site,
moderntales.com, and its affiliate
sites.
She achieved her lifetime career goal in 2004 when her life's
work -- past, present and future -- has been accepted as part of the San Diego
State University's Library's Special Collection, and will be available to students
and professors for research, and to the public for exhibits.
She can
be emailed at barr at stinz dot com (remove spam barriers). She answers. Keep
the sentences short.
10,000 Drawings. Klio's very neat webcomics site. And that quote's not original to me -- I got it from Steve Gallacci.
Now we've had the sugar, on to the hangover fluids:
I'm sitting here counting up the feuds I have in this industry.
And admitting that part of it is my short temper.
All you have to do is lie to me, mess with me, play the hypocrite, steal my stuff, use me for an attack dog without realizing the teeth point both ways, or resent the fact that I talk more than you do because you're a SHY LITTLE FAN BOY, and I'M NOT, and I'm liable to go off on you.
Okay, okay, so sometimes it takes time building up. That's the OTHER thing I do wrong, and that a lot of girls do wrong. We put up with stuff. We're patient. Years' worth of biting our tongues and putting up with stuff. So that when it finally comes time to resent and blow up over the shit we have to put up with, we have a tendency to go the other way, too fast.
I know when I'm permanently pissed at somebody because I block their email. This is because I will, if given the chance, get knotted up in huge long arguments over fucking NOTHING, getting madder by the minute. When all they gotta do is walk up and say they want to be friends and I'll get so totally over it (well, I'll be over it if you really are, and not trolling for strokes). I have a very short memory, if I don't think I'm being stalked (Paranoid? MOI?).
I think I like this site because now everybody will know I'm liable to be extremely rude, given the chance. And unlike Evan Dorkin I MEAN it. I'm sorry, I think Evin is totally sweet. But maybe that's because he just says what he thinks right off the bat, and so doesn't get all crinkled up inside until he goes off like Mount St. Helens, which is my problem.
I could name somebody else in this industry who doesn't get mad at all the totally obnoxious mistreatment this amazingly talented person puts up with, but goes into a slow simmer that lasts for years, and the only person who hears about it in person is me -- oh, and the readers, who get to see the characters this person draws and then get all shocked when they actually meet the author, who is not like the characters at all, at least on the outside. And I could just totally smack this author for not applying the gas mask analogy -- put the gas mask on yourself before you mask the baby, or you're both going to die.
Oh, like I'm one to talk. Because now I've managed to get myself into putting on an arts festival up here in the middle of nowhere, and possibly a liar's fest, and hooking up the Food Bank to get donations from the Salmon Derby via a Backbone Grill and Head-chowder-off. When I'm not running around pretending to be a journalist at the Forks Forum.
I wonder what I'm going to be when I grow up? ________________________________________________ Latest: Going in circles trying to replace printers for three books. You know what I did? I got my books all over the net for sale, and my readership leaked out of the comics shops, or got rebuilt elsewhere.
Oh, yeah. Little Miz I'm-Gonna-Shove-The-Industry-Off-The-Cliff forgot that when it started to go, she was CHAINED to the damn thing by the ankle and was gonna go over with it.
If these print runs don't go by traditional means, then stay tuned for where you will be able to get them, because one way or another you will be able to. And when I get all that original art back, I'm doing collections in such a way that this stuff is NEVER going out of print, not ever ever again, and I can go fish.
