If you have never read an issue of Donna Barr’s wonderful comic masterpiece,The Desert Peach,I feel really sad for you. Seriously.
Back in the day [they KEEP saying that but which day??] I used to take all the latest Desert Peach books to the Westminster Comic Mart to show around to other creators [it was our “catch-up” time]. There was never ever a negative comment about DP. Lots of staring closely at the artwork and I know a few people purchased copies [hey I had a DP pin and a t-shirt!].
These classic books,with extra new stuff,are all available at Indy Planet:
http://www.indyplanet.com/store/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=desert+peach&osCsid=a0vptcs00qa9rh7pdgndoo04b4
But here is what you’ll find in the first three [TEN issues are currently available].
The Desert Peach #1[4142_30803] $3.75 Written and Illustrated by Donna Barr
Standard ComicBlack & WhitePage Count: 36POD
“Love, Honor, Death and Tea” - the perfect description for the life of The Desert Peach, the Desert Fox’s younger, gay brother. Based on the stranger - but too often true - side of World War Two, this classic series has changed lives and scrambled minds for two generations.
The Desert Fox’s pretty younger brother, the Desert Peach, takes him on a picnic, where they are interrupted by those rude boys from the British 8th Army. Shards of fine porcelain and bullets will fly!
The Desert Peach TM and © Donna Barr. All rights reserved.
The Desert Peach #2[4142_31023] $3.95 Written and Illustrated by Donna Barr
Standard ComicBlack & WhitePage Count: 36POD
The Desert Peach and his orderly drop into the local bar for a nice, cool beer, where they discover that prejudice must always be struggled against. The episode features some of the most beautiful fight scenes between two muscular men anywhere in the series, including one of the most fearsome kicks, and some nasty work with a table.
“Love, Honor, Death and Tea” — this sums up the life of The Desert Peach, the Desert Fox’s gay brother. The classic series swings wildly from tragedy to belly-laughs, as World War Two flaunts itself at its weirdest.
The Desert Peach TM and © Donna Barr. All rights reserved.
The Desert Peach #3[4142_31082] $3.99 Written and Illustrated by Donna Barr
Standard ComicBlack & WhitePage Count: 36POD
The Peach uses a recent prisoner, from
Hawaii, to talk his high-ranking brother into surfing for submarines. The Afrika Korps — including Desert Fox Erwin Rommel — in historically correct Afrika Korps bathing costume — nothing and their hats. Donna Barr takes on the fear of nudity that is rampant in
America by letting another people who is not so immature about the natural and normal take it all off. Sun, sand and coffin-lids; it never got funnier or weirder in the entire series.
“Love, Honor, Death and Tea” — the life of the Desert Peach, the gay brother of The Desert Fox, Germany’s famous WWII Field Marshal, Erwin Rommel. All 30 issues of the original classic will publish be available from Ka-Blam.
The Desert Peach TM and © Donna Barr. All rights reserved.
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