Exclusive Interview with the Award Winning Writer, Artist, & Publisher Donna Barr

Do a search on Amazon.com for author Donna Barr and you'll come up with over 85 books and graphic novels the prolific writer and artist has published since 1986. And, from what I've seen, that's only a portion of her actually bibliography. Even Barr herself isn't sure how many times her work has been in print. Donna Barr is best known for her books and series including: The Desert Peach, STINZ, Hader and The Colonel, and Bosom Enemies.

Donna Barr has won numerous awards in her career including The Xeric Grant, Seattle's Cartoonists' Northwest's Toonie, the Washington Press Association's Communicator of Excellence in Fiction and more. Her critically acclaimed work is impossible to pigeonhole into one particular genre. Is she a writer? An artist? A cartoonist? A social satirist? Actually, she's all of the above and more. Lately, she's added blogging and art commissions to her repertoire as well.

I was thrilled when she agreed to allow me to interview her, and even more excited when I started reading her responses to my questions. Even for readers who have not yet had the pleasure of reading her work, Donna Barr has a sharp wit, wry sense of humor, and a passionate intensity about her work and life in general that made reading her answers almost as irresistible as one of her books.

How did you become interested in comic books? Was it a childhood love or something you discovered later in life?

I wasn't. I never have been. My interest is in classic prose literature and folk and tomb art - especially that of ancient Egypt. You can see Egypt in the way I draw figures.