Donna Barr's Blog, page 2
July 12, 2022
Podcast and YouTube Channels
My YouTube Channel is DonnaBarrHerself
My Podcast is A Bazillion Ghost Stories.
April 14, 2022
SquatchCon Port Angeles 2023
SquatchCon is Port Angeles's very first comicon. This is me with my Ka-Blam tshirt and some of the first cosplayers to show up, on Thursday. Ka-blam is the best print on demand company, especially for floppy comics, with almost 80's prices!
SquatchCon cosplayers
It was crazy. There are photos all over social media of this event. The tables sold and number of attendees, including for panels - including very professional cosplay - were like for a six-year-old con. In it's first year, it outgrew its space bigtime. I ended having a double title: SquatchCon Outreach AND Fairy Godmother. I am all over this thing, having the time of my life.
This is what the organizers say: “So weirdly enough, we're going to be looking for another venue for Squatchcon after all. Between the outdoor issues and hallway crowding, the building owner felt that it was literally too successful for our space. Stay tuned!”
Next year, the convention plans to split into two simultaneous events, SquatchCon, and NerdCon. Who plan to have bowling leagues and a playoff during the convention.
You gotta attend in 2023.
That first night, we had Drink and Draw at Bob's Studio.
I was able to give this one to the cosplayer. He loved it.The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
September 21, 2021
Emerald City Comicon 2021 - MEET UP and UPDATES
This post will be updated as scheduling comes in.
Will Emerald City Comicon 2021 - December 2-5 - happen? Do we know? Since we can't, I got me a 4-day pro badge anyway. They're not expensive, so Just In Case works.
I'll be in Seattle for four days - Thursday afternoon, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The first two days, I'm staying away from the convention, because, you know, COVID. So Thursday and Friday, if you don't do the convention, we can say hi in person! I'll be organizing meet-ups, parties, and listing events, whether they're part of ECCC or no. I go home Monday morning.
If you have any event you'd like me to attend, or a dinner, or a party, let's list it here, so I can get really organized.
See you in December! OOH, Christmas decorations.
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...February 4, 2021
I Want To Come Back As One Of My Cats
Jim, Yellow Bear, and
Teeny Puppy.Back in 2007, we rescued an abandoned cat.
His name is Jim.
He was already a full-grown cat when we got him, so in 2021, he's at least 20.
BUT - his weight is good, and he is happy.
True, his pupils don't expand or shrink at the same time or rate, and at night he wanders the house yelling, with a stuffed toy named Yellow Bear in his mouth, all of which signals dementia. Well, I don't know if Yellow Bear is part of that, but he participates.
He has some kind of large mass in his belly - possibly in his spleen or liver - but he's too old to have an operation, and the vet doesn't think she can reach it anyway. He eats, he drinks, he poops and pees - and he loves to sleep under his red light by the stove.
We'll just keep him home until he passes away, or until he needs vet assistance to leave.
It's our job to be cheerful and pamper him.
In our house, we have a saying: "I want to come back as one of my cats."
We should all end up so good.
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...January 31, 2021
Easter Eggs To Me?
This is getting odd. It's one thing to see story ideas or characters that resemble each other, because there's been a lot of genre-borrowing over the centuries.
And then there's some very specific stuff that is so oddly the same you start to wonder.
My comics, The Desert Peach, and Stinz, have had a world-wide audience for years. I'm beginning to wonder if other creatives who know my work - especially writers in much more recent film and animation - are throwing little Easter Eggs to me. I would be so delighted if they were.
I can't prove this. Just take a look and think about it.
ZOOTOPIA: There are a bunch of stupid wolves guarding the secret project. In Stinz, there are a bunch of bachelor wolves my fans call The Stupid Wolves. They even look somewhat like the ones in Zootopia - and they're about as bright.
I wouldn't think that was enough to prove those are my images - but look at the secret installation on the lake with its causeway, and then look at the mill and the mill-race in Stinz. The two things together have me wondering. What do you think?
THE HATEFUL EIGHT: This is really an oddly one. In Tarantino's movie, Sam Jackson shows up as a man who famously served in the Union army as a Major. So he's the Black Major. That's just one point - but his old enemies have a ransom on his aging head? Stinz was the Black Major - and had a ransom on him. And had gotten old.
FROZEN: I know there's a reindeer in the original Snow Queen. But the role of the reindeer and the person who rides him is much more like Udo and his reindeer in The Desert Peach. What do you think about that in addition to the birch trees?
THE GOOD LIAR: This one is sensitive. First and foremost, the REAL bad guys in that movie are the Nazis, that screw up two families SO BAD.
"Taub" is commonly a Jewish name in Germany. Jews who were officially Germans - yes, the Nazis took over the roll of the Rabbis in saying who was Jewish - served in the German army. They could visit their official Jewish relatives in camps before the war started, and all access were closed to the camps, which were then devoted to extermination.
Taub's relatives seem to have already died in the camps. This is a weird complex idea, and you see it in The Desert Peach, between Udo and Leutnant Winzig.
It's what makes the movie even more horrible. I'm not saying anybody saw this - because this kind of stuff happened all the time.
There you go. If these are coincidences, so be it. But if they're Easter Eggs - thanks, guys!
Final note: one Stinz character is the village blacksmith. He has a pet black rooster who is really a demon. One of the woodcutters up here has a pet red rooster who follows him everywhere.
Both birds are named "Chicken."The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
October 7, 2020
CONTACT ME
Instagram: donna_barr_herself
Email: donnabarr01 at gmail dot com
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...Zoom Meetings
I run 1-hour Zoom meet-ups, mostly for learning music, having a drink with friends to loosen up, just having fun.
I may occasionally run other sorts of art-related Zooms.
Nothing fancy, no pressure. Show off or ask for advice. Questions welcome.
If you want to see if I'm running any meetings, contact me any of the social media and email addresses on this site.
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...May 18, 2020
First digital on the new Acer
It still looks like my stuff. I have a tendency to use traditional techniques, even on the most high-tech machines.This was done on the little Paint program that came with the puter. For learning purposes, it's perfect. Got me working with automatic hand movements very quickly.
Not a lot of brushes or colors - but what do we usually have on our drawing table, anyway? You know it's just that little cup full of brushes and markers and sometimes scissors or a screwdriver).
Paint doesn't have layers or anything (although it DOES have a kind of 3-D option. Hm. I see the next thing I'll have to do is figure out the keyboard options for emojis.
March 29, 2020
All My Comics Online
The Desert Peach
Stinz
Afterdead - all of Donna's Characters together!
The Desert Peach Extras
The Black Manuscripts, courtesy of San Diego State University Special Collections.
The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
WHERE AND WHEN WITH DONNA BARR
2020 - Olympic Collectible Expo - Cancelled? We'll see.
2020 -RainCon - June
2020 - Comic Book Swap Meet - July
2020 - Opttacon - August
2020 - Emerald City Comicon FLOOR ONLY - August 21-23
2020 - ShortRun - November
Clallam Bay Comicon (Holding Page)The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...
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