Valentine's Day 2016

Happy Valentine's Day to all Mine Folks - with creatures vaguely wearing the themes of my books.

Donna Barr's Minions

You guys over on Facebook are at fault for this.

You ASKED for Minions, I give you Minions.

If you want a CMYK or BW or other copy of this to use on the tshirt or something, contact me at donnabarr01 at gmail dot com. 

Meanwhile, since this is only 150 dpi, go ahead and have fun with it.

And before anybody brings up "Despicable Me," I've had minions since forever. Including the Peach Pitts. You know who you are. And how little control I had over any of you. Rawr, in very deed.

Not My Small Death Coach

I've been contributing to Not My Small Diary for years. The next theme is 'Unexplained Events."

Here's my two pages.

If you want to see the project itself, head over to My Small Web Page.

Emerald City Comicon 2016

Myself and Roberta Gregory will be sharing table A-18 in the Artists' Alley at the 2016 Emerald City Comicon. For details of the show, click here.

We'll have books, of course - and we'll be sketching like crazy for anybody who wants one! Our work has great prices and imagination. You know you want some.

See you in April!

Krampus's Little Helpers 2016

Because kids really do love Krampus. Happy Holidays - ALL of them - to you all! Because we can't have enough parties.

Stinz Volume One Repair Download

First of all, even though I proof these pdfs to death, there's always a page or two that get away from me. In this case, the new Stinz Collection volume 1 has a missing page - page five of "Hair of the Wolf."

So - for those of you who bought Volume 1 of the new Stinz collection, this is what I did for my OWN copy. 

You can't get these un-improved versions, any more, either. I fixed 'em on the Amazon link. I love Print-On-Demand - no more tearing our hair after a huge, expensive print run comes out. When an alert reader emails a correction, we can - correct - it!

Print this jpeg - either on your own printer or your library's - and tip it into the book, either plain or glued. You see this sometime in old books - this is proof it still happens, when a book gets as big and complex as these collections do.

And if I see you at a convention with one of these, you get a color sketch - for free. It's like a coupon.

Isatope Comics Signing in San Francisco

Donna Barr, Mike Phillips, Twin Peaks

On the weekend after Halloween, 2015, Roberta Gregory and I were flown down to San Francisco to be interviewed as part of the film project by Mike Phillips, Secret Identities - LGBT documentary comic book film. I can't wait to see this film, full of everybody in the LGBT community and allies. It's going to be great.

On the first day after arriving, we were taken by our host, Mike Phillips, to see the Twin Peaks. What a view! Ravens - my totem bird and always a good omen - greeted us overhead.

Mike interviewed us in the rooftop garden of his apartment building, with some more beautiful views all around. Later, he picked up some more words from me

Blue Knight, me and Mike

at the carousel in Golden Gate Park - a place that has sweet personal memories for me. If you look very carefully behind the glass you can see my favorite horse, Blue Knight. 

We stayed with lovely folks in San Francisco, and all I can say about what part of town they live in is - Mummy Cat! Let's just say that when I first went to Baghdad by the Bay, I was walking to Hallowe'en in the Castro, and did a double-take at a mummified cat and mouse in a window. I never talked about this, until, walking the final block to the flat, I stopped short - there was Mummy Cat, with his mouse, again! Strange spooky weekend, including weird nostalgia.

A royal welcome.

The flat where we stayed is a writer's cooperative. They welcomed us royally with a banner - and a writer's evening of Chinese food and wine and readings. We were well-nourished, body and soul. 

Can I say enough about the signing at the Isatope Comics Lounge with Roberta Gregory, Saturday, the 7th of November? James Sime, the owner, must have gotten the word out everywhere, because the whole evening was filled up with fun people coming in to see us. Even old friends Don Simpson, a wonderfully creative artist on DeviantArt, and long-time colleague and comics historian Trina Robbins.

Roberta, Gnometown author, Me

Mexican mural and me.

Mike toured us around the city every day, stopping in every vegetarian Thai restaurant there is, and marking down some new ones for the future. During the tour, Roberta got this shot of me in front of a Mexican restaurant, featuring one of the many murals of San Francisco. 

Thank you, Mike, thanks to all his friends, thank you Isatope, thank you San Francisco. This trip will be long remembered fondly - and with anticipation for the new film.