This article defines all furry publications as either fanzines, traditionally meaning a fan's own publications, or APAzines, collections of personal contributions. This leaves out one of the most important categories of all, the furry magazines. These were published like a regular magazine; they had an editor -- Jeff Ferris for Yarf!, Karl Maurer for FurVersion, Brian L. Miller and later Byron Havranek for FurryPhile, Conrad "Lynx" Wong for PawPrints Fanzine, etc. -- and fans submitted their stories & art to that editor. If they weren't good enough, he rejected them. He and his assistants laid out the magazine and published it. So these magazines were generally much higher in quality than the fanzines of individual fans, which did not have as much quality control.
The examples here of Yarf! and FurVersion are magazines, not an individual's fan's fanzines. Rowrbrazzle, Centaurs Gatherum, and Huzzah are APAs -- not Individual APA contributions, but complete issues of those APAs.
This article defines all furry publications as either fanzines, traditionally meaning a fan's own publications, or APAzines, collections of personal contributions. This leaves out one of the most important categories of all, the furry magazines. These were published like a regular magazine; they had an editor -- Jeff Ferris for Yarf!, Karl Maurer for FurVersion, Brian L. Miller and later Byron Havranek for FurryPhile, Conrad "Lynx" Wong for PawPrints Fanzine, etc. -- and fans submitted their stories & art to that editor. If they weren't good enough, he rejected them. He and his assistants laid out the magazine and published it. So these magazines were generally much higher in quality than the fanzines of individual fans, which did not have as much quality control.
The examples here of Yarf! and FurVersion are magazines, not an individual's fan's fanzines. Rowrbrazzle, Centaurs Gatherum, and Huzzah are APAs -- not Individual APA contributions, but complete issues of those APAs.
Fred Patten