Dogpatch Press

Or should I say “manhandled?”  Nah… Dogpiled. That’s more like it. This story is no reason for alarm.  It’s just a P.S.A. to say “hey guys, look out for each other!” With this story, I’m assuming: You’re a furry, or at least you don’t hate them. (It’s in-group stuff.) You don’t hate hearing about adult activity, with […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Tips are always welcome.  ____________________________ Fandom News _____________________________ FurAffinity sold to 3D social network IMVU.   You heard, right?  FurAffinity is the shaky but most active anchor for furry socializing and art.  Naughty stuff on it can’t go without mention.  That makes it a haven for freedoms that make the community what it is, […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Ribbit, directed by Chuck Powers. 88 minutes. September 4, 2014. This CGI animated feature was released theatrically in Malaysia, in Malay, on September 4, 2014. But I saw it at my sister’s on On Demand TV in English on January 16, 2015. It is not the […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Ooops! Noah is Gone…, directed by Toby Genkel and Sean McCormack. For Summer 2015. The number of theatrical animated features coming in 2015 keeps getting larger. There have been uncountable magazine cartoon variations of a pair of unicorns standing on a rainswept mountaintop, watching Noah’s Ark […]

Fanfiction: Transformative Works from Shakespeare to Sherlock assigns homework to read a story replacing characters with animals.  (See March 4 in the link.) I emailed the professor for comment to furries. She has an interesting background and is author of “Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World”.  (Her previous course focused on Twilight – the movie just came out, […]

Yay! Two things promoted here are on the short list of Ursa Major nominees. Best Anthropomorphic Magazine: Dogpatch Press - OF COURSE!   Well, it may be more accurate to claim “Fluffiest hugs” or “Most Linty”.  Who can pick just one from all the awesome choices?  But vote for us anyways, so we can spread more awards and […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Furtual Horizons; A Rainfurrest Anthology, edited by Ryan “Sterling” Hickey. Illustrated. Dallas, TX, FurPlanet Productions, September 2014, trade paperback $10.00 (269 pages). Furtual Horizons is the fourth annual RainFurrest charity fiction anthology, following 2011’s Stories of Camp Rainfurrest, 2012’s Tails of a Clockwork World, and 2013’s […]

Just published in the media: SF IS A HOTBED OF ONE KINKY-CREEPY-CUTE SUBCULTURE. And: SAN FRANCISCO – A FURRY FETISH EPICENTER.  More on that shortly.  (I apologize if this post is jumbled to read all at once- a lot of related topics just happened.) 1) Researcher Debra Soh recently wrote about Furries in Harper’s Magazine.  I invited her […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Tips are always welcome.  The Tufts Daily goes to a furry convention. Anthro New England gets a good college news piece.  My Newsdump gathers links as news happens, but it’s interesting there’s no other media articles this time! ____________________________ Comics/animation: “who likes remakes?” _____________________________ I hope you like remakes, because […]

Do those titles perk your ears up?  They had major impact on cult movies from the 1990’s to now.  The Crow won a new level of respect for comic-based movies, which had never been so dark before.  (The soundtrack alone was a gateway for countless black-clad kids.)  Then, Dark City created a visionary sci-fi dystopia world with only a handful to compare: like […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Previously: French Anthropomorphic Animal Animated Features, Part 1.  There will be four parts. Continuing from where we left off … Le Château des Singes (The Castle of Monkeys), directed by Jean-François Laguionie. 76 minutes. June 2, 1999. Kom, a brash young monkey, is a member of the Woonko […]

A few weeks ago, you may have seen some brief drama that disappeared.  It was about a comedy podcast and blog about Fur Con.  Two friends trespassed to mock the con-goers, and got banned.  Their piece got a response here, and then there was mutual takedown. The tone of their comedy story reminded me of a thing that happened in 8th grade.  A […]

When pop culture notices furry fans, it loves leaping to conclusions.  The internet has porn, and the weird furry stuff can make people’s eyes bug out and stick in their minds.  So is that what being a furry is about? Some people have a kink for that – is it fair to stick all furry fans in that category? The assumed link of furries and sex is […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books, by Michael Barrier. Illustrated. Oakland, CA, University of California Press, November 2014, hardcover $60.00 (xxi + 407 pages), trade paperback $34.95, Kindle $19.49. “Way back when the idea of a ‘comics scholar’ sounded like the punch […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Prince Who Fell from the Sky, by John Claude Bemis. NYC, Random House, May 2012, hardcover $16.99 (259 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $5.98. In this Young Adult fantasy (recommended for ages 8-12; grades 3-7), humanity is long extinct. Intelligent but feral animals have taken over […]

No – this isn’t about regular anthro animals, or mascots like Tony the Tiger (as fabulous as he is.)   However, this regular Symbicort “wolf” ad has kept bringing occasional traffic since I posted it in the summer.  People seem to want more of the animation: There’s a million regular ads. Let’s focus on ones with specific awareness […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Huvek, by James L. Steele Dallas, TX, FurPlanet Productions, July 2014, trade paperback $19.95 (247 pages). (Publisher’s advisory): This is a mature content book.  Please ensure that you are of legal age to purchase this material in your region. “Loy emptied his clip, ejected it and crouched […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Great Catsby, by Linda Stewart NYC, Cheshire House Books, September 2013, trade paperback $10.95 (143 [+ 1] pages). This is the fourth novel in Stewart’s Sam the Cat series, officially children’s fantasies but often Edgar and Agatha Award mystery-fiction nominees. Stewart’s first, Sam the Cat: […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Story tips are always welcome.  Ursa Major Awards nominations close on February 28.  Nominate Dogpatch Press – get fuzzy hugs!  I love furries so much, blogging about them is it’s own reward.  But I love shinies too, so can the highly attractive readers of this site nominate it for […]

The Ursa Major nominations close on February 28.  Send yours to support creativity.  Here’s a choice that deserves recognition: Finsterworld is far from well known. That’s too bad, because even though I gave it a lot of articles, I only just remembered to add it to my nominations.  If you like smart movies and don’t hate foreign […]