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We Should Not Forget the Elephant
Straight from the folks at Animation Scoop: “Gnosis Moving Pictures CEO Darius A. Kamali and Whisper Pictures CEO George Merkert announced today that the companies are partnering on the animated...
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Furry convention history project - can you help?
Fred Patten says,I am writing a history of all Furry conventions from the first, in January 1989, to the end of 2010, when there were 42 of them around the world. This is 182 pages; almost 45,000...
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Newly published: Fred Patten's 'Funny Animals and More'
Funny Animals and More: From Anime to Zoomorphics, based on Fred Patten’s weekly columns from Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research animation website, was published March 26 by Theme Park Press. It is...
View ArticleOrigin and significance of the term "yiff"
This article is a collaboration between Rakuen Growlithe and Christiaan Ferret.When it comes to the furry fandom, we have many unique neologisms, including words such as fursona and the phrase pawing...
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Review: 'Felix the Cat Paintings', by Don Oriolo
This is a beautiful but chaotic collection of full-color paintings of Felix the Cat, by Don Oriolo. There are at least five title pages and subtitles, all different, plus a foreword by Craig Yoe and...
View Article'This Furry Life' seeks producers, writers, correspondents
Potoroo, host of the Fuzzy Notes podcast, is developing a new podcast that models itself after NPR's This American Life with a focus on the stories of the furry fandom. Like the popular program, it...
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Furry fanzines, comics and furry history
With $40 that I sent to a collector, I dove into the interesting pool of furry fanzines. Anyone can publish furry art and comics online these days, but back when the Internet was more BBS than WWW, it...
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Rat.org: the original fan repository returns
After a 20-year hiatus, Rat.org has returned, at least as a read-only museum. Few today may remember it, but for some fans it was their first furry Web repository, and a launching point or inspiration...
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Furrydelphia: Philly's fourth bite at the furry apple
Philly Metro's "Inside Philly's first furries convention" offers a compelling summary of our fandom's latest (and quite successful) convention. But its title betrays a lack of research. While Drayne...
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Review: 'Furry Nation' by Joe Strike
If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're...
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Remembering Fred Patten
There is a balding man with glasses, standing in the corner, cradling a book against his stomach, reading. You saw him a lot. At the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society meeting hall, the APA collation...
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In memoriam: Fred Patten (1940-2018)
Fred Patten was born in Los Angeles, California on December 11, 1940. By the time he was ten years old, he'd become interested in science fiction and had started to collect SF books and magazines. From...
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Party Animals: How American politicians got their fursonas
Early next month, Americans will vote for various political offices, including President of the United States, the U.S.'s head of state. This is usually considered a pretty big deal in America, and...
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Mozilla, Firefox, Doge and… a squirrel?
Future Firefox, or just another Foxkeh?Mozilla has been forced to state that the increasingly-stylized fox in their browser logo is "alive and well"— despite mounting evidence of Doge influence in...
View ArticleHow naughty Fursuit allegations led to EMTs getting screwed in one New Jersey...
John Oliver once again shows off his suspiciously furry stylings of comedy in one of his recent segments. In this case, he compared Brussel's EMT siren sound to Mickey getting ‘spin-cycled’, yes a...
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Remembering Ian Curtis (1946-2021) - A founding father of the British furry...
Ian George Stuart Curtis passed away some time in May of 2021. He was one of the founding fathers of the furry fandom in the UK.Born in December 1946 in Hull, he grew up on Disney cartoons and funny...
View ArticleArt Spiegelman's Maus: A Timely Appreciation
I was just going to sit on this particular entry until a later time, since Maus is a novel I rather grew up with, having discovered it in college. Current events have ratcheted my schedule up to today....
View ArticleFurry fandom featured in academic journal written by culture PhD student,...
An article surrounding the content of furry fandom, written by a furry university of Texas PhD Student, has been published in the journal of Transformative Works and Cultures. The peer-reviewed journal...
View ArticleFurries and internet worry of history erasure as Twitter and Google announce...
Google has recently announced its intention to deactivate accounts if the user is inactive after two years of time. This comes only a week after Twitter had announced that they too will be looking to...
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Furtannia: The History of the Furry Fandom in the United Kingdom
British furry Tim "Gamepopper" Stoddard has released his new book, Furtannia: The History of the Furry Fandom (Barnes & Noble US, Amazon UK) in the United Kingdom (Uncle Bear Publishing, 2023).This...
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