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Furry Force part 3: “Furry Superheroes Are the Grossest” is the new animated comedy short from CollegeHumor.  It did confusing things to my body.  I didn’t know whether to laugh or barf.  Let’s call it larfing.  If you’ve ever been hangry, you get what I’m trying to say.  Or if you’ve ever sharted… never mind, because that’s […]

Tips: [email protected].  Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Guest posts welcome. “Local correspondents” wanted to talk about your local networks.   This week’s Newsdump: Everything Anthrocon!  There was SO MUCH of this news, and it was such a busy month, that I will be playing catch-up for a while with it… I’m not able […]

Tips: [email protected].  Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Guest posts welcome. “Local correspondents” wanted to talk about your local networks.   This week’s Newsdump: Everything Anthrocon!  There was SO MUCH of this news, and it was such a busy month, that I will be playing catch-up for a while with it… I’m not able […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.  This article is a companion to Fred’s series on French anthropomorphic animal movies. The César Awards, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma (Academy of Arts and Techniques of Cinema) since 1976, were frankly designed to be French cinema’s answer to the American Academy […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.  This article is a companion to Fred’s series on French anthropomorphic animal movies. The César Awards, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma (Academy of Arts and Techniques of Cinema) since 1976, were frankly designed to be French cinema’s answer to the American Academy […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Dear Patch; Here is my review of Needle and Through the Eye of a Needle by Hal Clement that I wrote for Cubist’s Anthro several years ago.  Maybe only one fan in a hundred will take the trouble to track these down, but they’ll probably be […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Dear Patch; Here is my review of Needle and Through the Eye of a Needle by Hal Clement that I wrote for Cubist’s Anthro several years ago.  Maybe only one fan in a hundred will take the trouble to track these down, but they’ll probably be […]

New Orleans is a renowned party town.  In the French Quarter, on Bourbon Street, you can get potent drinks like a Hand Grenade or a Resurrection in to-go cups, and walk around the neighborhood as boldly as you dare.  A walk into some of the restaurants can make you sneeze, because the crawfish boils have so […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Rainbow Serpent: A Kulipari Novel, by Trevor Pryce with Joel Naftali. Illustrated by Sanford Greene. NYC, Abrams/Amulet Books, October 2014, hardcover $15.95 ([3 +] 289 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $9.99. This is the middle novel of an adventurous Young Adult trilogy, following An Army of […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.   GeneStorm: City in the Sky, by Paul Kidd Raleigh, NC, Lulu.com/Perth, Western Australia, Kitsune Press, May 2015, trade paperback $26.37 (420 pages), Kindle $7.99. This is based upon Kidd’s own new GeneStorm role-playing game, which seems to be similar to TSR/Wizards of the Coast’s 1978 […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Stray Lamb, by Thorne Smith. NYC, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, November 1929, hardcover $2.00 (vi + 303 pages). Yarst! I referred in a recent comment here (June 15) to “Thorne Smith-ian comedy magical mayhem”, and I was asked, “Who’s Thorne Smith?” (“You don’t know how old […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Guest posts welcome. “Local correspondents” wanted to talk about your local networks.  Tips: [email protected].  ____________________________ In The Media _____________________________ Brace yourselves for Anthrocon coverage. “Inside the furries: they’re people too”– from WTAE news in Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh has always been a welcoming, accepting city for this fandom, and here’s […]

Gay marriage just became legal across the USA.  Even if you have no plan to get one, it’s a big deal.  People of a few generations ago thought we’d have flying cars before this happened.  The writer of “Furry Force” says: In San Francisco, the news hit right at “gay christmas”.  The city was getting ready […]

Here’s an update to the tragic story from 6/29/15, that comes with a GoFundMe appeal for help. Alex H. is known to furry friends as a fandom artist. To everyone else, he was the only American caught in a special effects accident at a festival in Taiwan. 500 were injured, over 200 in critical condition, […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Echoes of Those Before, by James Daniel Ross. Illustrated by Josh Parise. Clairton, PA, Copper Fox Books, May 2015, trade paperback $11.99 ([3 +] 256 pages), Kindle $2.99. “In a broken world, in a broken land, there lay the shards of a kingdom. Near the […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.   Last of the SandWalkers, by Jay Hosler. Illustrated by the author. NYC, First Second, April 2015, trade paperback $16.99 ([5 +] 312 pages), Kindle $9.99. Biologist/entomologist/cartoonist Dr. Jay Hosler has been creating comic books and cartoon-art books since the 1990s. He may be best-known for […]

Sometimes the Dogpatch Press tip account gets extra cool messages.  Here’s what new friend Arrkay sent: We here love what you guys post online and what your content does for the fandom, so we hope you’ll take some time to check out what we’re doing! Where does the love of anthropomorphics come from? How far back can […]

Colored powder being sprayed over a festival stage was ignited by surprise, causing a mid-air explosion over festival goers.  The accident happened at Formosa Fun Coast, a water park in Taiwan.  Roughly 500 are reported injured, including over 200 in critical condition.  Photos show chaos and graphic injuries, especially to feet and legs of the victims […]

In November 2014, I shared news about the very active Furry author Tempe O’kun.  Public Radio interviewed him about his writing – and they treated Furry writing as just a genre, not a “weird news” item.  Even the romance kind!  That was refreshing, and I thought he did a great job representing it.  So do other furries, […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Wild Piano, by Fred. [Translated by Richard Kutner.] NYC, Candlewick Press/TOON Books, May 2015, hardcover $16.95 (45 [+ 1] pages). The Wild Piano (Le Piano Sauvage) is Book 2 in the Philémon series by Fred (Frédéric Othon Théodore Aristidès, 1931-2013), serialized in the classic French […]