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pourpasserlamelancholie · 9 months

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#The Desert Peach #donna barr #Pfirsich Rommel #Rosenkavalier #my favourite #he's one of a kind #and his silly little song cracks me up everytime #such gibberish!

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allflooby · 8 months

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Found Donna Barr's The Desert Peach 1 and 2 at Half Price Books today. Had to include the back covers.

#the desert peach #donna barr #underground comix #Manfred pfirsich marie rommel

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open-hearth-rpg · 8 months

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#RPGCovers Week Fourteen Lace and Steel (1989) Donna Barr

This is one of those covers where the draw is the distinct style and vision of the artist involved. In this case Donna Barr, who did a number of long-running series including 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.”

Barr’s work uses distinct inks (and occasional watercolors). It creates an effect which has cartoonish elements, but doesn’t feel cartoony– like Usagi Yojimbo or the best of Girl Genius. It’s joyful and always carries a sense of fun, even when the material is serious.

The original edition of Laces & Steel was a slipcase boxed set. It was among the first rpgs I remember to use cards as a distinct element, in this case unique sets for resolving verbal and physical duels. The setting is a fantastical swashbuckling version of Europe with peoples of different ancestries (satyrs, harpies, etc.) involved in romances, wars, and social climbing.

The cover of that boxed set is good: dynamic and engaging. There’s energy and the feel of a real, serious duel– with our noblewoman in the background providing a reaction and a set of stakes. But in some ways the use of color here mutes Barr’s work. You see that when you examine the covers of the four booklets from this game.

They’re amazing– a brilliant presentation of geography, history, fashion, and more. All of the covers have amazing detail, worked almost exclusively in black and white, with a few greyscale elements. They’re the kinds of images you could look at all day and find new ornamentation. The Character book is properly sexy, Book Two, Naked Steel, is a mix of triumph with the terrible warfare happening behind, Book Three presents a geography which reminds me of the David Macaulay books, and Book Four introduces more of the frightful and fantastic.

And all of this doesn’t even touch on the great array of interior art which Barr provides.

#ttrpg #rpg #rpg covers #great rpg covers

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fyeahdesertpeach · 1 year

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#Poll #i love polls #the desert peach

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burnt-cinnamon · 3 years

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Starting to read “The Desert Peach” like: