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Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Tips are always welcome.  ____________________________ Media and Fandom News _____________________________ The Animation Show of Shows: There’s no better source for artistic animation, and they need support. This touring show presents the best of the best in the world of short films, by the most talented directors.  It’s […]

Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer, submits this review: The Guardian Herd: Stormbound, by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez. Illustrated by David McClellan; map. NYC, HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper, April 2015, hardcover $16.99 ([xiii +] 299 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $8.89. Well, this is a big surprise! The Guardian Herd: Starfire, the first book in this series, listed 32 […]

Following this week’s “Pride in Furry Mecca” item – It was an incredible rush to march with dozens of fursuiters in the 2014 San Francisco Pride parade.  It was a good cause, but besides any message, the parade was full of music and cheering that made it pure fun.  On ordinary days, it was a main […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Spirit of the Wolves, by Dorothy Hearst NYC, Simon & Schuster, December 2014, hardcover $26.00 (356 pages), Kindle $13.99. Spirit of the Wolves is a.k.a. The Wolf Chronicles, Book Three, following Promise of the Wolves (2008) and Secrets of the Wolves (2011). “I crouched at the […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Tips are always welcome.  ____________________________ Media and Fandom News _____________________________ On June 28, San Francisco Pride is going to be awesome for furries! The Bay Area Furries are all ready to march in the parade.  Pride is the height of street fair season in “Furry Mecca”.  It’s […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Book of Lapism, by Phil Geusz. [2nd enlarged edition.] Birmingham, AL, Legion Printing & Publishing, January 2015, hardcover $24.99 (351 [+1] pages), Kindle $4.99. This book is a bibliographer’s nightmare. It’s referred to as the Deluxe edition, the 2nd printing (but presumably means the first […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. I feel like complaining, and I’m not sure who to complain to. It’s about the review of the recent FurCon in Science Fiction/San Francisco #161, (PDF), Spring 2015, “Furries in the Fog: Further Confusion 2015” by Christopher Erickson, reprinted in the DP newsdump of April 16. […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Legacy, by Hugo Jackson. Map. Derby, England, UK, Inspired Quill Publishing, September 2013, trade PB $12.99 (v + 371 pages), Kindle $3.90. The map of Eeres on pages iv and v shows only a few land masses amidst many oceans and seas; the result of a prehistoric […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.   Trap Me!: Finally, a Happy Gay Furry Adventure, by Chris and Cooper Elkin. Illustrated by Cooper Elkin. [?] November 2014, trade paperback, $14.88 (304 pages), Kindle $8.44. “An Unforgettable Adventure Through a Steampunk World! Follow two furries in their quest for a mysterious artifact.” “That looked […]

IN THIS ARTICLE: Don’t miss the story of Charles Lauri, a famed “animal impersonator” who thrilled the stages of Victorian London, but is little known today. The story of his acting skill, uncovered from an 1893 magazine, could be an inspiration for fursuiters everywhere. Many people are familiar with a unique team costume for Halloween – the Pantomime horse, […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Previously: De Cape et De Crocs is back! French anthro comic announcement, by Fred Patten. De Cape et de Crocs. T. 11, Vingt Mois Avant, by Alain Ayroles & Jean-Luc Masbou. Paris, Delcourt, November 2014, hardbound €14,50 (48 pages). The book has a back-cover quote from Hercule Savinien […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Tips are always welcome.  Zootopia: Disney goes full furry, and this stuff is going to explode in 2016.   How excited are you for the next furriest movie ever? “Anthropomorphic” isn’t quite an everyday household word, and it’s use in this trailer spells out an open secret.  Before they made […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Who Killed Kathleen Gingers?, by Gary Akins. Revised edition. Illustrated. Austin, TX, Furry Logic Productions, February 2010, trade paperback $15.00 (136 pages). For those who object to funny-animal fiction – stories in which there is no reason for the characters to be anthropomorphic animals instead of […]

Beige is the opposite of colorful.  Beigists are enemies of fun: A dull, dogmatic, unoriginal person who uses stale language and platitudes, and disregards the eccentric, daring, decadent, or unusual; a humorless bourgeois. One who lacks charm, joie de vivre, blitheness, or self-expression. A bland, banal person. There’s nothing wrong with being average.  The problem is the “-ism”. […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.   Mort(e), by Robert Repino. Illustrated by Sam Chung. NYC, Soho Press, January 2015, hardcover $26.95 (358 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $12.99. “Before he took his new name, before the animals rose up and overthrew their oppressors, before there was talk of prophecies and saviors, the […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Tips are always welcome.  “Call of the wild: Local Furries say they are misunderstood.” A Minnesota newspaper has a standard-issue “meet the furries” article.  The last Newsdump (5/28/15) reported that MNFurs have been growing with an active community, a registered nonprofit, and a new convention (Furry Migration.)  Their activity […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Blue Horizon: The Captain’s Journal, Book 2, by Ted R. Blasingame (with Eileen Blasingame and Steve Carter). Revised edition. Raleigh, NC, Lulu.com, March 2015, trade paperback $16.99 (346 pages). Blue Horizon, Book 2 follows smoothly after Book 1, reviewed here in March. If you liked Book […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Cat Out of Hell, by Lynne Truss. London, Hammer Books, March 2014, hardcover £9.99 (233 pages), Kindle £4.31. As usual, this review lists the first, British, edition. American readers will find it easier to get one of the American editions (Melville House, March 2015). An unnamed […]

Pacific Anthro Weekend (PAW CON) October 30th – November 1st, 2015 San Jose, California   It’s “Survival of the Furriest” this Halloween, with an end-of-the-world party to die for!  Pacanthro.org has details.  Follow their Twitter for updates. Last year was their inaugural event.  It snuck in under the radar of many. About 200 furries showed up […]

What a price for a fursuit!  On 2/14/15, furries saw their highest auction ever.  It was only a few months after the previous record (I wonder how long this one will last?) While $11,575 is amazing, I don’t think it should cause drama… some people spend much more money on cars for a hobby.  Hollywood effects costuming can add […]