The Desert Peach #28: Tongue [Comic]

Donna Barr (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1998

The Peach and the war-orphan Hans find Rosen after the end of the war. Bitter and hilarious (The Peach's son Mani has a walk-on role -- and a future surprise for his unsuspecting father).

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Donna Barr is laughing at the stereotypes and prejudices of war, in a very subtle way... without any doubt, 'The Desert Peach' is an unusual flight above the 'black and white' contexts created by the media of our time. (Sasa Rakezic, Nasa Borba, the newspaper Our Struggle, Serbia)

REVIEWP Once again, I found myself caught up, compelled to read on, carried by the flow of the narrative, lost in admiration of the art, and completely unable to remember that the premise of this, like all Barrwerke is at least 50% insane. How does she do that? How come so few people seem able to do that? As someone once said, of someone else, just before they made Donna Barr, they broke the mold. (Daniel Pinkwater, Chicago Days, Hoboken Nights -- Sasa Rakezic, Nasa Borba, the newspaper Our Struggle,

With The Desert Peach, you are addressing intriguing situations with restraint and wit, and in putting an unexpected spin on familiar stories give them fresh resonance. Compelling work. -- Kim Cooper, Editrix, Scram Magazine

From the Publisher

For over a decade, Donna Barr's very individual style of art and writing has cultivated an unusually loyal and intelligent worldwide audience. They await every new chapter eagerly, and are never disappointed.

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Product Details

• Comic: 64 pages
• Publisher: A Fine Line Press; First Edition edition (December 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892253046
• ISBN-13: 978-1892253040
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,701,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Donna Barr is the author of the classic comics series, "The Desert Peach," following the life of the Desert Fox's fictional gay brother. She is also the author of "Stinz," about a civilized, rural centaur stallion, and "Bosom Enemies," which has been called a fable about slavery.

She is the author of such prose novels as "Permanent Party," her fictionalized memoir of life as a WAC in the early 1970's; "Bread and Swans," continuing stories of the life of The Desert Peach"; and "An Insupportable Light," the original novel that led to the "Stinz" series. It's about how wars get started when no one wants them and both sides think they're right.

All her series continue in "Afterdead," the afterlife of the Desert Peach, where all her characters meet and interact in new and amusing roles. Afterdead collections 1 and 2 are both available at Amazon.com, as are her prose novels. Robotcomics is processing all her books for use on Kindle.

Her home site is www.donnabarr.com, which leads to her webcomics and bookstores.

"Donna Barr shows herself to be one of the heralds of the forthcoming age -- doing her comicbook in such a way as to satisfy her own insight, awareness and inspiration." -- Dave Sim, Cerebus.

"That's the haken crux, (that) each character in Pfirsich Rommel's battalion is just a soldier in the field; he might be a dog-face, fed, reb, tommy, poilu -- he happens to be a kraut. These guys are not political, nor even particularly patriotic -- they're regular bewildered zchlubs, trying to survive in a situation nobody would choose.
"What we have seen so far is enough to assure us that good taste and decorum will at least be attempted, that Donna Barr will continued to show us events, through an arrangement of mirrors so elaborate that we can never know for sure at whom we are looking, never be sure at whom we are pointing when we say 'Ecce homo!'" -- Daniel Pinkwater, "Young Adult Novel"

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars not as salacious as it sounds ..., December 30, 1999

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This review is from: The Desert Peach #28: Tongue (Comic)

returning to postwar germany, donna barr paints a moving and vivid picture of the era. embodying the millions who searched for relatives or information, pfirsch and hans (the orphan who adopted him) have been searching for rosen, a luftwaffe pilot. giving in to hans' demands for regular meals and a home, pfirsch agrees to abandon the search only to find that rosen, true to form, has once again landed on his feet.