Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. I have written lots of reviews of French talking-animal comic books. It’s time to also cover talking-animals in text in the mystery/detective novel field. Here is a profile of one of the oldest series of all; the Midnight Louie novels by Carole Nelson Douglas. Future articles […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Prophecy Machine, by Neal Barrett Jr. NYC, Bantam Books/Spectra, November 2000, 0-553-58195-3 paperback $6.50 (342 [+ 1] pages). The Treachery of Kings, by Neal Barrett Jr. NYC, Bantam Books/Spectra, August 2001, 0-553-58196-1 paperback $6.50 (326 [+ 1] pages). In works of fiction, usually the focus […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Bones of the Empire, by Jim Galford. Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, August 2015, trade paperback $13.99 (508 pages), Kindle $2.99. Bones of the Empire is Book 5 and the conclusion of Galford’s The Fall of Eldvar series. It connects the events in both Books 1 & 2, […] View the full article
In the past month, Oklacon and Rainfurrest both announced dramatic cancelations involving misbehavior. (Oklacon was written up here on 9/28/15.) Mainstream news didn’t notice, as far as I know. The only press I saw was a super positive Rainfurrest article: “Being a Furry Can Change Your Life.” Public image is a big deal to furries. They seem even more sensitive about it […] View the full article
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Guest posts welcome. Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com. USA Today shares a lot of new Zootopia images and story hints. Mrs. Otterton’s missing husband spurs the action on. There’s “Duke Weaselton, a small-time weasel crook with a big-time mouth”. Judy Hopps is “a ground-breaking rabbit trying to make it as a […] View the full article
Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer, submits this review: ROAR volume 6, Scoundrels, edited by Mary E. Lowd. Dallas, TX, Bad Dog Books, July 2015, trade paperback $19.95 (394 pages), Kindle $9.95. ROAR, Bad Dog Books’ about-annual anthology of non-erotic furry adventure short fiction, enters a new phase with volume 6. Volumes 2 through […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Léonid. T. 1, Les Deux Albinos, by Frédéric Brrémaud & Stefano Turconi. Toulon, France, Soleil, August 2015, hardcover €10,95 (48 pages). My thanks to Lex Nakashima, as usual for this French bande dessinée album. At first glance, Léonid looks like a cute funny-animal comic book featuring […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. By Tooth and Claw: Clan of the Claw, Book 2 [edited by Bill Fawcett]. Riverdale, NY, Baen Books, April 2015, trade paperback $15.00 (309 pages), Kindle $8.99. Book 1, Exiled: Clan of the Claw, was published in August 2011. I had begun to think that Book […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Tinder Stricken, by Heidi C. Vlach. Sudbury, Ontario, Heidi C. Vlach, May 2015, trade paperback $14.00 (266 pages), Kindle $3.99. “By dawn’s feeble light and one smoldering candle, Esha stared into the polished tin mirror, full of dread like every other morning. The goat had stolen […] View the full article
Furclubbing: “A repeat/regular nightclub event by furries for furries.” It’s a New Thing that’s been spreading since the late 2000’s. This kind of dance party is independent from conventions. This builds on the growth of cons, and takes things farther. It’s more ambitious than events that happen once, house parties, or informal meets. Those can stay inner-focused for friends who already […] View the full article
In July, Culturally F’d was announced here with an episode list. It’s the Furry youtube series that asks: Where does the love of anthropomorphics come from? How far back can we dig in history and mass media to really get to the bottom of it? Why does every culture across the face of the earth have a […] View the full article
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Guest posts welcome. Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com. “Being a Furry can change your life” It’s a feature for The Stranger in Seattle, sharing some touching personal stories from Rainfurrest. (That’s a nice change from drama…) Writer Matt Baume previously wrote a pretty good piece about puppy play, including one standard […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Swallowtail and Sword: The Scholar’s Book of Story and Song, by H. Leighton Dickson Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, April 2015, trade paperback $11.99 (255 pages), Kindle $2.99. This is an interlude, because it comes after Book 3, Songs in the Year of the Cat, the last published, […] View the full article
Thanks for help from Poppa Bookworm, and tips from Arrkay (Culturally F’ed) and Fuzzwolf (FurPlanet.) The newly established PAWcon is coming up on October 30 – in the same place as Further Confusion. It made me raise a topic: In the 90’s, ConFurence was THE convention for all furries worldwide. 26 years after ConFurence 0 broke ground, the subculture has […] View the full article
Here’s more about a previous Newsdump item. (To read non-English links, try Google translate.) “Furries For Kids” comes from the German/Austrian community. It has a goal to set up a legitimate charity with fursuiters, like “Clown Care” (a program to bring the healing power of laughter to hospitals). Here’s the website for their philanthropic organization. My translation of their mission: “Many people in the world […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Ocelot: Le Chat Qui N’en Était Pas Un, by Jean David Morvan & Séverine Tréfouël [writers] and Agnès Fouquart [art]. Paris, Delcourt, August 2015, hardcover €12,50 (48 pages), Kindle free. Thanks once again to Lex Nakashima for this fine example of the French bande dessinée. If […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Stone God Awakens, by Philip José Farmer. NYC, Ace Books, November 1970, paperback #78650, 75¢ (190 pages). “He awoke and did not know where he was. Flames were crackling fifty feet away. Woodsmoke stung his nose and brought tears. Somewhere, men were shouting and screaming. […] View the full article
It’s a belief demonstrated with skill by Jill, the highly demanded maker at Jillcostumes. Her quote appears in The Fursuit of Happiness: High Fashion in Furry Fandom – an article from July 2015 at Racked (a style and beauty industry news site owned by Vox Media). The author is Sydney Parker, a journalist who previously wrote about furries for Splitsider, a news site about […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Suspended Castle, by Fred. [Translated by Richard Kutner.] NYC, Candlewick Press/TOON Books, October 2015, hardcover $16.95 (53 [+ 1] pages). The Suspended Castle (Le Château Suspendu) is Book 3 in the Philémon series by Fred (Frédéric Othon Théodore Aristidès, 1931-2013), serialized in the classic French […] View the full article
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Guest posts welcome. Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com. Patreon Hacked, Furries blamed, journalist downloads porn for “work”. Patreon user info was compromised by a security breach. A Twitter user claiming responsibility offered an online-politics grudge motive, and shared claims that Patreon account data was being misused by the “Yiff.party” website. The prankish claim […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Into Expermia, by M. R. Anglin North Charleston, SC, CreateSpace, July 2015, trade paperback $9.99 (299 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $2.99. M. R. Anglin’s Silver Foxes series is up to four novels now. She began writing it with Silver Foxes, published in April 2008. You can […] View the full article
Belgian, to be accurate. Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Une Aventure de Chlorophylle. T.1, Embrouilles a Coquefredouille, by Godi & Zidrou. Brussels, Belgium, Le Lombard, September 2014, hardcover €10,60 (48 pages). My thanks to Lex Nakashima again for this French-language bande dessinée. So they’ve started another Chlorophylle series. Whoop-de-do. Raymond Macherot […] View the full article
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Guest posts welcome. Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com. Food Network’s The Great Food Truck Race features Fursuiters. I’m told that a minute of air time was recorded during a “furry scurry” in Chicago. (I’m pretty sure I have heard of such an event, but can’t find it at Lake Area Furry Friends.) I […] View the full article
Discussion of the history of furry fandom with Fred Patten, at ConFURence 9. Fred Patten is the most valued contributor at Dogpatch Press. He came here during editor down time at Flayrah, seeking a stable place for his reviews and history articles. (For those who aren’t acquainted with Fred’s impressive resume as a fan historian and curator, he has spent […] View the full article
Oklahoma Department of Recreation and Tourism: 405-230-8303 Direct line to Dick Dutton – Executive Director: 405-230-8414 Oklacon sounded like a fantastic event. (Here’s interesting coverage from an independent Oklahoma City news blog.) Now comes sad news that Oklacon is canceled permanently. The reason appears to involve a tangle of prejudice and bad faith, coinciding with a misbehavior […] View the full article
