Hope Barrett
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Hope Barrett is a comics artist and writer, born in Hong Kong in August 1962. She is the creator of OH... Her Comic Quarterly, a magazine which featured stories written by and about women, many of whom were bisexual, lesbian, or queer.[1][2] Barrett published the magazine herself, under the publishing company B Publications.[1][3][4] She currently runs North Door 37 Publishing.[5] Barrett signs her work and is often credited under the names Hope or Hope B.[1][6]
Life[edit]
Barrett attended Curtin University from 1980-1984, earning a Bachelor of Arts in literature.[5]
Comics and publishing[edit]
Strip AIDS[edit]
In 1987, Barrett contributed a short comic titled "HongKong Standard" to Strip AIDS, a comics anthology compiled and edited by Don Melia with the aims of raising money for a new AIDS care center called London Lighthouse and of breaking the stigma which Melia observed in contemporary mainstream media. Barrett's strip covered this same theme of serophobia.[7]
B Publications[edit]
Barrett ran B Publications from 1991-1998. She was the editor and sole contributor to the company, publishing Crisis: Chinatoon Tales in 1991 and OH... from 1992 to 1998.[5][8]
Crisis: Chinatoon Tales[edit]
Crisis: Chinatoon Tales was an anthology of political cartoons from international contributors such as George Gale, Dana Summers, Roy Peterson, Andy Donato, Emu of Hong Kong Economics Journal, Ming of Hong Kong Economic Times, Zunzi of Ming Pao Daily News, Gary Trudeau, and Tony Allen and David Hine of 2000AD. The anthology focused on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and China's response to the killings.[8][5][9]
OH... Her Comic Quarterly[edit]
In addition to creating OH..., Barrett contributed to and edited the publication.[1][6][4] Her character, Agent Street, appeared in an eponymous serial comic in OH....[1][10] She also included a series called Tara King. Other artists involved in the magazine include Dianne Reum and Joan Hilty, who both featured as regular contributors.[11][4] Reum and Hilty contributed serial comics with recurring characters, named Tomboy and Immola, respectively.[12]
Columns of the magazine included "Femail" and "Mal(e) Content," which featured letters from readers; "Megalomaniac's Corner," an editorial section by Barrett; "Woman to Woman," reviews of contemporary comics; reviews and reports written by contributors such as Hilty and Leanne Franson; profiles of contemporary women comics artists, including Janine Johnston, Diane DiMassa, Alison Bechdel, and Roberta Gregory; "A Brief How D'You Do," brief profiles of contributors; and "P.S.," a column of announcements of current events pertaining to OH..., its contributors, and its contemporary publications.[13][14][15][16][17]
OH... ran for 22 issues, from October 1992 to April 1998. The issue numbers, dates of publication, and titles (when issues were titled) are as follows:
- Issue 0 (Subscriber's Preview), October 1992
- Issue 1, December 1992
- Issue 2, February 1993
- Issue 3, May 1993
- Issue 4, August 1993
- Issue 5, November 1993
- Issue 6, February 1994
- Issue 7, May 1994
- Issue 8, August 1994, "Immola and the Luna Legion"
- Issue 9, November 1994, "Tomboy"
- Issue 10, February 1995, "Holly Girl in Sapling Town"
- Issue 11, October 1995, "Tomboy Takes to the Street"
- Issue 12, April 1996, "Agent Street"
- Issue 13, June 1996
- Issue 14, August 1996
- Issue 15, December 1996
- Issue 16, March 1997
- Issue 17, May 1997
- Issue 18, July 1997
- Issue 19, September 1997
- Issue 20, November 1997
- Issue 21, January 1998
- Issue 22, April 1998
Roberta Gregory and Robert Kirby contributed comics several times to the magazine. Other contributors included Jay McLaughlin, Leanne Franson, Amy English, Nikki Gosch, and Lee Kennedy. Regular contributors included Tristam Puppy, T. Serkku, Stephanie Pennington, and Lisa Maas.[10]
The titled issues of the publication, issues eight through twelve, were special issues including only one or a few contributors, rather than the anthology format of the other issues. Each one also includes an editorial note from the author(s). Issue 8 was done entirely by Joan Hilty, focusing on her recurring character for OH..., Immola. Issue 9 features exclusively Reum's work, and her character Tomboy. Issue 10 consists of Tristam Puppy's work about her character Holly Girl. Issue 11 is a crossover between Barrett, Reum, and Hilty, featuring their recurring characters. Issue 12 includes a short comic of Barrett's Agent Street as well as other editorial information.
OH... was reviewed and advertised in several contemporary publications, including Deneuve: The Lesbian Magazine (now known as Curve Magazine) in its April 1993 issue,[18] Action Girl Comics in its sixth issue,[6] and Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources in its Summer 1993 issue.[4]
OH... was distributed by Inland Book Company in April of 1993.[18]
Deneuve Magazine[edit]
Barrett's work, including comics and a brief interview, appeared in Deneuve, now called Curve Magazine, from 1992 to 1994. The comics she contributed to Deneuve include:
- "Rule Four" in the December 1992 issue, page 64[19]
- "The Attack" in the February 1993 issue, page 64[20]
- "Breathless Art/Deathless Prose" in the April 1993 issue, page 12[18]
- "Ellis Kwan Debates..." in the June 1993 issue, page 63[21]
Barrett is listed as a "Cartoonist and Illustrator" in the October 1993 and December 1993 issues, although none of her signed work appears in them.[22][23]
In an interview in the October 1994 issue, she named her favorite cartoonists as being N. Leigh Dunlap, Marian Henley, Albert Uderzo, Rumiko Takahashi, and Carol Lay.[24]
North Door 37 Publishing[edit]
Barrett has published several e-books under North Door 37 Publishing, including Forget Heels! and Somebody Get Me a Hammer.[25]
Career outside comics[edit]
Journalism[edit]
Barrett worked for several publications in the 1980s. She contributed freelance work to Lifestyle Asia, South China Morning Post, for which she interviewed Sylvester Stallone. She was a reporter for Hong Kong Standard, for which she interviewed Peter Ustinov, Pierce Brosnan, Leslie Cheung, and Anita Mui.[5] Her interviews of these celebrities are chronicled in her 2013 book, Forget Heels![25]
Back Seat Activity Book[edit]
In 1992, Back Seat Activity Book, a children's activity book written by Amanda Armstrong and illustrated by Barrett, was published.[26]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Barrett, Hope (April 1996). "Agent Street". OH... Her Comic Quarterly (12).
- ↑ VerBeek, Todd. "Oh... Issues 1, 2, 5-12". Beek's Books - An Ongoing Collection of Comic Book Reviews. Retrieved 2022-10-18. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Mason, Jeff (March 22, 1998). "Comic Book Industry Addresses". Retrieved October 19, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Shult, Linda (1993), Holman Weisbard, Phyllis, ed., "New and Newly Discovered Periodicals", Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources, Madison, Wisconsin: Phyllis Holman Weisbard, 14 (4), pp. 29–32, retrieved 2022-10-19
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Hope Barrett". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Dyer, Sarah (1996). "Volume 6". Action Girl Comics. 6 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Strip AIDS : a charity project for London Lighthouse. Don Melia, Lionel Gracey-Whitman. London. 1987. ISBN 0-9512522-0-8. OCLC 21874237. Search this book on
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Crisis : Chinatoon tales. Hope Barrett. Ramsey: B Publications. 1991. ISBN 0-9516990-0-8. OCLC 24845591. Search this book on
- ↑ Barrett, Hope, ed. (March 1997). "OH...". OH... Her Comic Quarterly (16): 2.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "OH--A Comic for Her". web.archive.org. 1999-02-18. Retrieved 2022-10-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Roberts, Larry-Bob (May 1995). "Queer Zine Explosion 12 - New Zines Only". Queer Resources Directory.
- ↑ Barrett, Hope, ed. (February 1993). "OH...". OH... Her Comic Quarterly (2).
- ↑ Barrett, Hope, ed. (May 1993). "OH...". OH... Her Comic Quarterly (3).
- ↑ Barrett, Hope, ed. (August 1993). "OH...". OH... Her Comic Quarterly (4).
- ↑ Barrett, Hope, ed. (February 1994). "OH...". OH... Her Comic Quarterly (6).
- ↑ Barrett, Hope, ed. (May 1994). "OH...". OH... Her Comic Quarterly (7).
- ↑ Barrett, Hope, ed. (November 1994). "OH...". OH... Her Comic Quarterly (9).
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 "Deneuve: The Lesbian Magazine". Deneuve: The Lesbian Magazine. 3 (2).
- ↑ Barrett, Hope (December 1992). "Rule Four". Deneuve: The Lesbian Magazine. 2 (6): 64.
- ↑ Barrett, Hope (February 1993). "The Attack". Deneuve: The Lesbian Magazine. 3 (1): 64.
- ↑ Barrett, Hope (June 1993). ""Ellis Kwan Debates..."". Deneuve: The Lesbian Magazine. 3 (3).
- ↑ "Deneuve: The Lesbian Magazine". Deneuve: The Lesbian Magazine. 3 (5): 4. October 1993.
- ↑ "Deneuve: The Lesbian Magazine". Deneuve: The Lesbian Magazine. 3 (6): 6.
- ↑ "Deneuve: The Lesbian Magazine". Deneuve. 4 (5): 46. October 1994 – via Curve Foundation Archive.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 "northdoor37 - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ Armstrong, Amanda (1992). 35 backseat activities. Hope Barrett. Dominguez Hills, CA: Educational Insights. ISBN 0-88679-772-1. OCLC 28810852. Search this book on
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