Dogpatch Press

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Uncovered, by Kyell Gold. Illustrated by Blotch. St. Paul, MN, Sofawolf Press, July 2014, trade paperback $19.95 ([xvi] + 411 [+ 3] pages), Kindle $9.99. (publisher’s advisory): “’Uncovered’ is a romance novel intended for an adult audience only and contains some explicit sexual scenes of a primarily […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. There will be several parts but it may take time to prepare the next ones. French (meaning French-language, whether produced in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, or the French-speaking part of Switzerland) anthro theatrical features have been in the news since the subtitled 2013 U.S. release (English-language dub […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. A Wilder West, by Ted R. Blasingame Raleigh, NC, Lulu.com, August 2014, trade paperback $13.99 (258 pages).  “The range of low granite mountains baked in the prairie’s summer sun, heat waves shimmering into water mirages wherever there were flat places. A ghostly dust devil stirred up […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Slightly Damned, Book 3, by Sarah “Chu” Wilson Phoenix, AZ, Slightly Damned Comics/Orlando, FL, Ka-Blam Digital Printing, Aug. 2014, trade PB $39.95 (unpaged [282 pages]), digital download $4.99. Slightly Damned, Book 3 is here, collecting pages #377 to #571 (March 15, 2010 to January 26, 2013) of […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Story tips are always welcome. Site news: Super linty hugs for everyone, especially if you send Dogpatch Press from the Ursa Majors recommended list to the Award nominations (now open!) For the next few weeks, my posting will be sparse due to time demands.  Meanwhile, enjoy uninterrupted content from […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. I would like to thank my sister, Sherrill Patten, for getting this On Demand on her TV so I could see it. Actually, I could pretty much just repeat my comments about “The Nut Job” on Flayrah last February. “Thunder and the House of Magic” is […]

Late, but not too late… sorry Fred! A busy week got in the way of posting this before the con. There’s time to check it out at the con now. Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer, submits this announcement: The Furry Future; 19 Possible Prognostications, edited by Fred Patten and published by FurPlanet Productions, […]

Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer, submits this review: Tales from the Guild: Music to Your Ears, edited by AnthroAquatic. Illustrated by Blaquetygriss. Las Vegas, NV, Rabbit Valley Books, September 2014, trade paperback $14.95 (133 pages). The Furry Writers’ Guild was, to quote its website, “founded in 2010 to promote quality anthropomorphic literature and […]

I don’t often see outside companies actively reaching out to the small but thriving Furry subculture.  Not directly.  If I had to guess where it would happen, I’d guess for Second Life users.  But there are signs that Furries count as modest but valued audience, for some game media like Furvilla aimed right at them. One of these companies, IMVU, reached out: “IMVU […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. For fans of anthropomorphic/furry fiction:  2014 has rolled over to 2015!  Are you ready? If you’re wondering what you may have missed in 2014, go to the Ursa Major Awards website. The 2014 Recommended Anthropomorphics Reading List has just been closed out.  It contains all of […]

Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer, submits this review: Cast Away on the Letter A, by Fred. [Translated by Richard Kutner.] NYC, Candlewick Press/TOON Books, September 2014, hardcover $16.95 (45 [+ 1] pages). I have been waiting for over forty years for this book! In the 1960s and early ‘70s, before I concentrated upon […]

Read to the bottom for Fred Patten’s “best fursuit award” comment that inspired this.   In 2014, fun hobby blogging exposed me to many new ideas that could use more development.  This blog is for underexposed, underrated topics.  That’s subculture, and it’s about fan love.  I love sharing it! Looking back at some articles about new ideas and opportunities, […]

Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer, submits this review: The Guardian Herd: Starfire, by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez. Illustrated by David McClellan; map. NYC, HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper, September 2014, hardcover $16.99 (245 [+ 4] pages), Kindle $8.89. This is blurbed as, “The first book in a gripping new tween fantasy series about winged horses—perfect for fans of […]

Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer, submits this review: ROAR vol. 5, edited by Buck C. Turner Dallas, TX, Bad Dog Books/FurPlanet Productions, July 2014, trade paperback $19.95 (325 pages).  ROAR vol. 5, the approximately-annual anthology of “literary” (non-erotic) anthropomorphic short fiction under the Bad Dog Books imprint, contains stories on the theme of […]

Furry New Year from Spottacus, Majik, Maczyn, Dakota, Bakr, Cassie, Stormy, Relaxing Dragon, Cyclone, Scoob, Chairo, Trail Horse, Zarafa, Kalu, Patch, and all the Bay Area Furries. (Pic by Amenophis.)  At the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the crowd was super excited to hang out with us before the fireworks.   It was a great year, and it’s a huge honor to host Fred Patten’s articles.   The blog got active […]

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Story tips are always welcome. _____________________________ In the Media _____________________________ You Can’t Get Inside – a profile of the furry community from within.  Michael Arthur writes at The Hooded Utilitarian.  “Profiles written in good faith by outsiders are thin on the ground.  Accurate ones do not […]

On video: “Louis the Lion battles for racing supremacy in the first ever Frantic Furry 500!” Sometimes I joke about my low interest in sports. (Sorry, Canadians!) I’d love it if the teams were all mascots, while one sports guy runs around for laughs. I imagine mascots worry about being upstaged by fursuiters. But the furries showed they’re good sports […]

Last week’s article about fursuits and top prices had very nice feedback.   Andreus wrote to mention that he owns Vex: …a realistic MixedCandy-made werewolf fursuit that cost roughly $4,500 US / £2,600 GBP at the time of purchase.  It’s got body-shaping padding such as digitigrade legs and large muscles for the proper muscular werewolf look. It’s also […]

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Moth and Rust, by Eddie Drueding. White Bear Lake, MN, Melange Books, August 2014, trade paperback $13.95 ([4] + 190 [+ 5] pages). This is Arraborough Book 3, following the 2012 Book 1, The Unimaginable Road and the 2013 Book 2, The Darkness. It will be […]

Wearing big rugs for animal role-playing takes a lot of devotion and money. In the above Anthrocon 2014 photo, 1,326 fursuiters broke the world record “Largest parade of people in fur suits,” set at Anthrocon in 2013. For each fursuit in the photo, allow a generous but in-the-ballpark worth of $2,320.51.  It makes the whole crowd worth exactly what someone paid for The […]