Donna Barr

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Donna Barr (born 1952 in Everett, Washington) is an American comic book author and cartoonist. Common elements in her work are fantastic human/animal hybrids and German culture. She is best known for her series Stinz (about a society of centaur-like people in a setting reminiscent of pre-industrial Germany) and The Desert Peach (about Pfirsich Rommel, the fictional homosexual younger brother of Erwin "The Desert Fox" Rommel, set in North Africa during World War 2). Other works include Hader and the Colonel, The Barr Girls, and Bosom Enemies.

Barr has also recently published a number of novels, including Permanent Party, An Insupportable Light, and Bread and Swans. The last two of these feature Stinz and The Desert Peach, respectively.

Barr has illustrated several GURPS roleplaying books, including GURPS Ice Age and GURPS Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.

D. J. Barr also produced illustrations for the Traveller roleplaying books, including Alien Module 8: Darrians, the MegaTraveller Player's manual and several issues of Challenge magazine.