[3] Pfirsch (peach) Rommel is a colonel in the German Afrika Korps in World War II.
[3] The rest of this unit of misfits includes a mute radio officer, a shell-shocked mental case with a pet landmine, a French-speaking black Moroccan, an American prisoner of war, and a Cossack mercenary.
[4] According to Barr, some of the themes within The Desert Peach are; "Love, Honor, Death and Tea, Surfing, fascism, obnoxious pilots and boyfriends, birth, love, hate, revenge, rape, child-murder, slavery, tribal customs, insanity, drug-use, prejudice, racism, death-camps, warfare, love-at-first-sight, homophobia, bad relationships, feminism, horse-training, camel-theft, fashion, marriage, euthanasia, grandchildren — etc., etc., etc".
[5] Donna Barr explains her process of creating The Desert Peach as, "I usually do a rough on scrap paper (junk mail has lots of blank backs!
Barr has also published a number of novels, including Permanent Party, An Insupportable Light, Ringcat and Bread and Swans.
Barr has created a series of handmade ornate, stitchery-covered bound sketchbooks, called the Black Manuscripts.
These include The Xeric Grant in 2000, The Bruce Brown Foundation Grant in 2004, San Diego Comic-Con's Inkpot Award in 1996,[7] Seattle's Cartoonists Northwest's Toonies in 1998, London Comics Creators Guild's Best Ongoing Humor Series in 1992, and the Washington Press Association's Communicator of Excellence for Fiction in 1997 and 1998.
Barr appeared at the Cartoonists Northwest Association 2016 event and received a Golden Toonie Award.
[2] Donna Barr has been involved in the Northwest community as a member of the Graphic Artists Guild, the National Writers Union, UAW/AFL/CIO, and has acted as a consultant for the Media curriculum in the Arts Department at Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington.