Hard to say, I wouldn't doubt if Disney won as many Ursa Majors as Kyell did there'd be complaints about that, however the movie has literally been a back and fourth between Disney and Dreamworks almost coincidentally on a year to year basis.
The two other "Ursa clusters" (TM) I see are Blotch for Published Illustrations and Usagi Yojimbo for comics. I'm sure there was complaints about them as well at the time they had won multiples in a row, of course not as well known as the complaints about Kyell, but still.
If anything though, I wouldn't interpret the whining as "putting down" a particular author, but more a whine for something new and fresh. Furries tend to be pretty much creatures of habit and loyal, but even they like to see new things once in awhile. I would have rather had seen that new and fresh come from furries getting off their tails and trying to beat him legitimately, however. Now whoever happens to win it will win, but they will remind themselves and others as well that it may not be the 'actual' winner of the year. So Kyell freed himself from those complaining about him winning, and replaced it with those who'll complain that the current winners didn't win legitmately.
When it comes to spectators and competition what one must learn is, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
On a hopelessly optimistic note, maybe the reason the media and such don't see furry writing as "furry" is well, "furry" writing is pretty mainstream and certainly not unique to the fandom.
Watership Down has sold over 50 million, Berenstain Bears as a series 260 million, and looking through the list there are a good chunk considering how much a minority anthropomorphic protagonists are.
So maybe these caricatures in writing are so common place, even outside the fandom, that there is a disconnect that the people who write anthroporphic novels might be furry fans themselves.
Hard to say, I wouldn't doubt if Disney won as many Ursa Majors as Kyell did there'd be complaints about that, however the movie has literally been a back and fourth between Disney and Dreamworks almost coincidentally on a year to year basis.
The two other "Ursa clusters" (TM) I see are Blotch for Published Illustrations and Usagi Yojimbo for comics. I'm sure there was complaints about them as well at the time they had won multiples in a row, of course not as well known as the complaints about Kyell, but still.
If anything though, I wouldn't interpret the whining as "putting down" a particular author, but more a whine for something new and fresh. Furries tend to be pretty much creatures of habit and loyal, but even they like to see new things once in awhile. I would have rather had seen that new and fresh come from furries getting off their tails and trying to beat him legitimately, however. Now whoever happens to win it will win, but they will remind themselves and others as well that it may not be the 'actual' winner of the year. So Kyell freed himself from those complaining about him winning, and replaced it with those who'll complain that the current winners didn't win legitmately.
When it comes to spectators and competition what one must learn is, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
On a hopelessly optimistic note, maybe the reason the media and such don't see furry writing as "furry" is well, "furry" writing is pretty mainstream and certainly not unique to the fandom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books
Watership Down has sold over 50 million, Berenstain Bears as a series 260 million, and looking through the list there are a good chunk considering how much a minority anthropomorphic protagonists are.
So maybe these caricatures in writing are so common place, even outside the fandom, that there is a disconnect that the people who write anthroporphic novels might be furry fans themselves.