The Desert Peach first appeared in 1986. Since then, the series has seen 32 issues published, each book ranging from 24-64 pages (usually 64!) and producing thousands of pages worth of material. The series has not been kept properly in print and modern day readers have suffered (suffered, I say!) to have the Peach out of their bookwormish lives. So we aim to fix that with this here webcomic site.
Every single page of every single issue, including short stories, specials, and even a prose novel, will all eventually be posted here for free reading. Plus new editions of all issues will become available for free digital download in the STORE as the serialization progresses. For more information about the series and creator Donna Barr, see our ABOUT page. Plus make sure you visit our FORUMS and CHAT ROOM to meet Donna and say hi to all the other fans. If you remember the great black-and-whites from the 80’s and 90’s, now’s your chance to finally read one of the very best.
New page every single day, Monday through Sunday, then repeat and repeat and repeat. Whoo!
Taking our launch as an opportunity to assist classic comics author S. Clay Wison, who fell and hit his head. He needs assistance for medical bills: http://www.sclaywilsontrust.com
Wunderbar! The Peach on line! I am so very proud to be your sister and am awed by all you have accomplished. Bet Mom & Dad are cheering, too. You’re a wonder.
AH! The Peach in his glorious self on the web. This is wonderful. I still tell the story about Lee of Lee’s Comics who couldn’t figure out for the longest time why some of his more “intelligent” customers were so enamored of this strange comic book. Until he finally sat down one day and started reading it for himself—and became an instant Donna Barr promoter!
Oh ! This is wonderful! I have done my darnedest to find all of the out of print issues of “the Desert Peach”, but I think I am still missing a couple. This will fill in voids, and help me figure out which I am missing.
Desert peach started in 1986? I thought it was older than that! Now I am wondering…the biggest topic of conversation among our friends in those days was AIDS. Suddenly the world was actually paying attention to the real broken hearts and lives this left in the gay world. Us meat headed straight folks never thought about it before, I guess. Did AIDS have anything to do with the idea for the Dessert Peach?
So many great comments! Amy: wait until issue #29, when Lee shows up as one of the characters — in all her land-on-her-feet glory. Meloday: The silly t-shirts came out in … 84? No, it wasn’t inspired by AIDS. It was inspired by a silly pun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Desert_Peach). But — since my brain is usually working on me behind the scenes, it must have been poking me about somethig more important. It usually gets my attention by the sweet or silly or sad. Then once it has me, it pounces and brings on the hard stuff. Kind of like what I do to my readers.