Barbara Tarr (also known as Babs Tarr) is an American freelance comic book artist currently employed by DC Comics and Image Comics. She is best known for her work on Batgirl and for her Japanese-style illustrations.
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Early life
Babs Tarr grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. She went to Bishop England High School, after which she studied Printmaking at Osaka University of Arts and Illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art, where she received her BFA in Illustration.
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Career
Tarr worked as a game artist at MindSnacks.
In 2014, her Japanese-influenced fan art caught the eye of DC Comics which hired her to draw a new Batgirl series. She later became the first long-term female artist to work on a Bat-Comic. Since then, she has been hired by Young Animal, Marvel Comics, and Image Comics. As her previous focus was primarily illustration, early issues of her work on Batgirl were sketched out by Cameron Stewart, and then passed over to Tarr to color, add details to, and enhance. Since then, Tarr has illustrated and done the covers for other DC Comics series, such as Black Canary and Gotham Academy. She has also worked for Hasbro, Disney, Boom! Comics, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Brand X. Her manga-inspired style has become more popular after Batgirl's popularity in the comic book industry, and it has found its way into other comics that Tarr has worked on.
Tarr's Sailor Moon Motorcycle Girls illustration (found on her personal page) became very popular and ultimately inspired Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher to write two villains for Batgirl #36 based on Tarr's illustration.
In 2016, Tarr stopped working on Batgirl and moved on to work on Image Comics' Motor Crush series where she worked as an artist and writer.
Bibliography
Artist
- Batgirl vol. 1: The Batgirl of Burnside
- Batgirl vol. 2: Family Business
- Batgirl vol. 3: Mindfields
- Batgirl #35-50 (2014)
- DC Sneak Peek: Batgirl (2015)
- Motor Crush #1-5, and #7-10
- Batgirl: A Celebration of 50 Years (2017)
- Batgirl: An Adult Coloring Book (2017)
Variant Cover
- Batgirl #52 (2016)
- Black Canary #1-2
- Gotham Academy #6 (2015)
- Justice League #39 (2015)
- Bombshells United #1
- Doom Patrol #1
- Southern Bastards #16 (2017)
Cover
- Batgirl #44,45,47-52
- Batgirl #1-3
- Convergence Superboy #1-2 (2015)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink (2017)
- Motor Crush #2-10
- Southern Bastards #19 (2017)
Penciller
- Young Gotham Sampler
Writer:
- Motor Crush #4-10
References
External links
- Official website
- Babs Tarr Tumblr
- Creator Listing on DC Comics Website
- Babs Tarr Image Comics Creators Page
- Babs Tarr Twitter
- Local Article about Babs Tarr from her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina
- The Mary Sue Boston Comic Con 2015 Interview with Babs Tarr
- Washington Post Comic Riffs Article on Babs Tarr
- Syfy Wire Indie Comics Spotlight Interview with Babs Tarr
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