Dogpatch Press

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Wild Dog City, by Lydia West Raleigh, NC, Lulu.com, September 2014, hardcover $35.99 (iii + 264 pages), trade paperback $17.99, Kindle $5.99. The opening of Wild Dog City is deliberately confusing. “It was utterly dark, the cold air sinking in the high concrete tunnel with a […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Guest posts welcome. Tips: [email protected].  Halloween treats:  Popularity for Rocket Raccoon, and some looks at the culture of costuming. Mom’s costume creation goes viral, ‘wins’ Halloween 2015.  A very lucky kid in Michigan got to be an accurately-diminutive Rocket Raccoon, complete with moving jaw.  It got shared on […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Eludoran: The Legend of Lorelei in a Geste of Grave Misconceptions, by Jonathan Goh. Illustrated, map, by Anya Ewing. Singapore, Partridge Publishing, December 2014, hardcover $48.38 (877 pages); Bloomington, IN, Xlibris, February 2015, trade paperback $32.25 (868 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $3.99. (As far as I […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Fred’s list covers an exhaustive variety of decades worth of Furry fiction, including classics from long ago.  (It occurs to me that Watership Down has an undeniably deserved place at the top of the list, but The Wind In The Willows is overlooked!  Maybe it should be reviewed?) See […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. I have written lots of reviews of French talking-animal comic books. It’s time to also cover talking-animals in text in the mystery/detective novel field. Here is a profile of one of the oldest series of all; the Midnight Louie novels by Carole Nelson Douglas. Future articles […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Prophecy Machine, by Neal Barrett Jr. NYC, Bantam Books/Spectra, November 2000, 0-553-58195-3 paperback $6.50 (342 [+ 1] pages). The Treachery of Kings, by Neal Barrett Jr. NYC, Bantam Books/Spectra, August 2001, 0-553-58196-1 paperback $6.50 (326 [+ 1] pages). In works of fiction, usually the focus […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Bones of the Empire, by Jim Galford. Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, August 2015, trade paperback $13.99 (508 pages), Kindle $2.99. Bones of the Empire is Book 5 and the conclusion of Galford’s The Fall of Eldvar series. It connects the events in both Books 1 & 2, […]

In the past month, Oklacon and Rainfurrest both announced dramatic cancelations involving misbehavior.  (Oklacon was written up here on 9/28/15.) Mainstream news didn’t notice, as far as I know.  The only press I saw was a super positive Rainfurrest article: “Being a Furry Can Change Your Life.” Public image is a big deal to furries.  They seem even more sensitive about it […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Guest posts welcome. Tips: [email protected].  USA Today shares a lot of new Zootopia images and story hints. Are you excited for Disney’s new furriest movie?  Mrs. Otterton’s missing husband spurs the action on.  There’s “Duke Weaselton, a small-time weasel crook with a big-time mouth”. Judy Hopps is “a […]

Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer, submits this review: ROAR volume 6, Scoundrels, edited by Mary E. Lowd. Dallas, TX, Bad Dog Books, July 2015, trade paperback $19.95 (394 pages), Kindle $9.95. ROAR, Bad Dog Books’ about-annual anthology of non-erotic furry adventure short fiction, enters a new phase with volume 6. Volumes 2 through […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Léonid. T. 1, Les Deux Albinos, by Frédéric Brrémaud & Stefano Turconi. Toulon, France, Soleil, August 2015, hardcover €10,95 (48 pages). My thanks to Lex Nakashima, as usual for this French bande dessinée album. At first glance, Léonid looks like a cute funny-animal comic book featuring […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. By Tooth and Claw: Clan of the Claw, Book 2 [edited by Bill Fawcett]. Riverdale, NY, Baen Books, April 2015, trade paperback $15.00 (309 pages), Kindle $8.99. Book 1, Exiled: Clan of the Claw, was published in August 2011. I had begun to think that Book […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Tinder Stricken, by Heidi C. Vlach. Sudbury, Ontario, Heidi C. Vlach, May 2015, trade paperback $14.00 (266 pages), Kindle $3.99. “By dawn’s feeble light and one smoldering candle, Esha stared into the polished tin mirror, full of dread like every other morning. The goat had stolen […]

Furclubbing: “A repeat/regular nightclub event by furries for furries.”  It’s a New Thing that’s been spreading since the late 2000’s.  This kind of dance party is independent from conventions.  This builds on the growth of cons, and takes things farther. It’s more ambitious than events that happen once, house parties, or informal meets.  Those can stay inner-focused for friends who already […]

In July, Culturally F’d was announced here with an episode list. It’s the Furry youtube series that asks: Where does the love of anthropomorphics come from? How far back can we dig in history and mass media to really get to the bottom of it? Why does every culture across the face of the earth have a […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Guest posts welcome. Tips: [email protected].  “Being a Furry can change your life” It’s a feature for The Stranger in Seattle, sharing some touching personal stories from Rainfurrest.  (That’s a nice change from drama…) Writer Matt Baume previously wrote a pretty good piece about puppy play, including one standard […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Swallowtail and Sword: The Scholar’s Book of Story and Song, by H. Leighton Dickson Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, April 2015, trade paperback $11.99 (255 pages), Kindle $2.99. This is an interlude, because it comes after Book 3, Songs in the Year of the Cat, the last published, […]

Thanks for help from Poppa Bookworm, and tips from Arrkay (Culturally F’ed) and Fuzzwolf (FurPlanet.)  The newly established PAWcon is coming up on October 30 – in the same place as Further Confusion.  It made me raise a topic:  In the 90’s, ConFurence was THE convention for all furries worldwide.  26 years after ConFurence 0 broke ground, the subculture has […]

Here’s more about a previous Newsdump item.  (To read non-English links, try Google translate.) “Furries For Kids” comes from the German/Austrian community. It has a goal to set up a legitimate charity with fursuiters, like “Clown Care” (a program to bring the healing power of laughter to hospitals).  Here’s the website for their philanthropic organization. My translation of their mission: “Many people in the world […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Ocelot: Le Chat Qui N’en Était Pas Un, by Jean David Morvan & Séverine Tréfouël [writers] and Agnès Fouquart [art]. Paris, Delcourt, August 2015, hardcover €12,50 (48 pages), Kindle free. Thanks once again to Lex Nakashima for this fine example of the French bande dessinée. If […]