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Itching for a furry dance party? The first Scritch Detroit is coming on 11/11/17.

Furclubbing: “A repeat/regular nightclub event by furries for furries.” The concept has been spreading since the late 2000’s. It’s a dance party independent from cons. It builds on their growth but takes things farther. It’s more ambitious than informal meets and events that happen once. Those can stay inner-focused, but this brings partnership with new kinds of venues, and new support for what they host. It crosses a line to public space, so a stranger can walk in and discover their new favorit

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Always Gray in Winter, by Mark J. Engels – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Always Gray in Winter, by Mark J. Engels Knoxville, TN, Thurston Howl Publications, August 2017, trade paperback, $12.99 (178 pages). Always Gray in Winter is one of those novels that is deliberately mysterious at first, and only gradually reveals what is going on. To avoid my own spoiler, here is the blurb on the author’s website: “The modern day remnant of an ancient clan of werecats is torn apart by militaries on three con

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Monster Island, Directed by Leopoldo Aguilar – Movie Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Monster Island. Directed by Leopoldo Aguilar, from a script by Billy Frolick & Alicia Núñez Puerto. Sony Home Pictures Entertainment, September 12, 2017, 80 minutes, direct-to-DVD, $14.99. Distributed in the U.S. & Canada by Vision Films (Sherman Oaks, California). Produced by Ánima Estudios (México City). Is Monster Island worth an article for DP? How can we ignore any movie with a character like Verónica, the pig-gir

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Pacific Anthropomorphics Weekend blasts off on November 3-5.

EXTENDED PRE-REGISTRATION: Sign up by the end of day on October 10! Register here to join the fun and support this young con. San Jose, CA has two furry cons. Look at special places like that for ideas about how the fandom is growing. (See my article: One Town, Two Cons.) Do two cons show healthy demand and raise the bar for both?  Do they split the community?  Or are they just on different paths with one trying an out-of-the-box concept?  Well, it looks like win-win positivity in San Jose.

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Foreign animated movies released direct-to-DVD in America – by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Are you going to see Woody Woodpecker: The Movie? It’s coming out on October 5th. In Brazil. But it’s a Universal movie. Or at least Universal is distributing it there. The American public may not have noticed it, but one of the cinematic trends of the 2010s has been the production or subsidizing by American movie companies of movies featuring their famous cartoon stars, for theatrical distribution worldwide by those companie

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The Kingdom of the Sun and Moon, by Lowell H. Press – book review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Kingdom of the Sun and Moon, by Lowell H. Press. Maps. Bellevue, WA, Parkers Mill Publishing, September 2014, trade paperback $11.99 ([xv +] 297 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $0.99. This Young Adult fantasy (winner of a 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award, for Teen Fiction (13-18 Years), of the Independent Book Publishers Association) is set in Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, home of the Habsburg monarchs of Austria, about 1820. In those day

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A furry’s brush with fascism – authorities “don’t understand the seriousness of the threat.”

(Comment from blog linked below.) Sugar-coating helps fascism worm in. Even with cartoon animals when Altfurry brings Trojan-horse hate to furry fandom. To learn more, see tagged stories here. A regional furry organizer shared this story.  ID is withheld so their job can be discussed. They’re an airport terminal worker. “Just encountered something that I never expected to see. A line of badged, patched, and uniformed fascists just came through my airport. Like any other passenger group, I w

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The Animal Guild Series – Book Reviews by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Animal Guild Series The Animal Guild, by Jennifer Sowle. 2nd Edition. Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, May 2015, trade paperback, $11.97 ([5 +] 307 pages), Kindle $0.99. Monsters in the Territory, by Jennifer Sowle. 2nd Edition. Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, February 2015, trade paperback, $12.99 ([5 +] 340 pages), Kindle $3.99. The Marrhob War, by Jennifer Sowle. 2nd Edition. Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, February 2015, trade paperb

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“Suburban Jungle: Rough Housing” – Comic review by Ace.

Review: Suburban Jungle: Rough Housing Guest review by Ace Suburban Jungle was a web comic done by John “The Gneech” Robey that started on February 1, 1999. It starred a young tigress, named Tiffany, who is trying to make a career of acting and modeling while holding down numerous temp jobs. Along the way she meets the Kurt Russell-esque Leonard Lion, Leona Lioness (no relation to Leonard), and many others such as Drezzer Wolf and Conrad Tiger. It was slice of life with the characters residing

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Aquatifur is making a splash with the first waterpark furry con, October 2017.

Who else loved going to Biggest Little Fur Con at a resort with go karts, mini golf, bowling and more? For finny friends and everyone else too, here’s a new one.  A fur con at a water park is such an amazing idea, the fun is rubbing off on me vicariously.  I’m happy for everyone who gets to go. I love swimming and fursuiting – what could be better than enjoying both at the same place? Maybe not at the same time though, unless you don’t mind a little lawn sprinkler action.  Stand back! Here’s

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French anthro comic: Solo, T. 2, by Oscar Martin – book review by Fred Patten.

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Solo. T.2, Le Coeur et le Sang, by Oscar Martin. Paris, Delcourt, January 2016, hardcover €16,95 (109 [+ 1] pages). Oops. This volume 2, The Heart and the Blood, almost got away from Lex Nakashima & me. Volume 3 is out already. Expect a review of it soon. I said of volume 1, “The setting: a bleak, war-destroyed future Earth. Think MGM’s/Hugh Harman’s 1939 animated Peace on Earth, where the last humans on Earth kill each o

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Borne, by Jeff VanderMeer – book review by Fred Patten.

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Borne, by Jeff VanderMeer NYC, MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2017, hardcover $26.00 (323 [+ 2] pages), Kindle $12.99. Borne is a science-fiction novel, not a furry novel. That’s Borne on the cover. No furry author has ever featured an animal quite like him – if he is an animal. “WHAT I FOUND AND HOW I FOUND IT I found Borne on a sunny gunmetal day when the giant bear Mord came roving near our home. To me, Borne was ju

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HappyWulf’s Furry KickStarters – Ep. 3

Welcome back, my shopping friends. Let me tell you a story! I almost missed this first entry because I don’t usually sift through the music section of KickStarter for projects to share. Imagine the egg on my face had I not found it. People don’t tell me these things! I have to find out on my own! I’m here to tell YOU about these things!! So these things, here they are! MUSIC Muh. A Pepper Coyote Album I shouldn’t need to introduce Pepper Coyote. This is for his new album, along with Fox Amo

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Three furries save lives in deadly multi-vehicle crash in England.

(Thanks for tip from Tinkafur) On Saturday, September 16, a highway accident killed four and hospitalized three in South Gloustershire, in the south west of England.  A truck suffered a tire blowout and lost control. It crossed into the oncoming lane, demolishing cars and a motorbike before landing in a ditch. Three witnesses were in a car 30 seconds behind the crash. They rushed to help at a traumatic scene.  Kids were pulled from a car on fire, while rescue crews were stuck in traffic.  E

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Here’s the Altfurry blocklist – a powerful tool to reduce hate spam.

Have you ever hung up the phone on a jerk? Frozen out a bully who acted like a wasp in your hair?  Rejected a stalker who can’t stop asking to sniff your socks?  Shut the door on a creep trying to get you into a crackpot religion, or to sign a petition to legalize hunting at zoos? Blocked spam to sell you a miracle cure for crotch rot, made from the powdered toenails of a peruvian jungle sloth? Good. You stood up for yourself like an adult and moderated a nuisance. And now the power is yours to

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Monster Party Cafe opens in Japan – the first permanent furry-themed business?

monsterparty.cafe It’s fun to go to themed places that make you feel like you’re in a movie. There’s Speakeasy and Tiki bars, or even Horror and Clown themed bars. For a spooky time, try The Jeckyl and Hyde Club in NYC, Donnie Dirk’s Zombie Den in Minneapolis, or Lovecraft Bar in Portland, Oregon. How about a visit to Toontown? For some people, it’s more than fun. Night life is real life. Some places support subculture or identity like Gay and Leather bars. Why not a furry bar? It’s a half-j

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Novelizations – Book Reviews by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Firestorm, by Greg Keyes. Based on the screenplay written by Mark Bomback and Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, based on characters created by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver. London, Titan Books, May 2014, paperback $ and £7.99 (304 pages), Kindle $7.99 and £3.99. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: The Official Movie Novelization, by Alex Irvine. London, Titan Books, July 2014, paperback $ and £7.99

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Ask a Cat, by Charles Brubaker – Book Review by Fred Patten

Ask a Cat, by Charles Brubaker. Illustrated. Martin, TN, Smallbug Press, June 2017, trade paperback $9.99 (127 pages). The Fuzzy Princess, vol. 1, by Charles Brubaker. Illustrated. Martin, TN, Smallbug Press, July 2017, trade paperback $10.99 (184 pages). Charles Brubaker is a fan and expert of comic strips and Japanese TV anime. He has been drawing his own comics for several years. Both The Fuzzy Princess and Ask a Cat currently appear on the internet, the former in color and the latter in

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The Art of Racing in the Rain; A Novel, by Garth Stein – review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Art of Racing in the Rain; A Novel, by Garth Stein NYC, HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper, May 2008, hardcover $23.95 (321 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $9.99. “Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And when I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order to communicate clearly and effectively. In order to make my point understood without question.

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Hurricane heartbreak: Dracokon’s house looks like Godzilla farted on it.

Poor Texas. I can’t wrap my mind around the extent of devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey.  It’s taught me a few things I never knew, like, most of Texas has no fire codes.  That’s how you get to see a chemical plant blowing up worse than a bunch of MFF gas attacks. I think the lack of safety precautions is caused by political lobbying. The state is so big that their lobbyists can affect the whole country (and that’s how they control textbook buying too, so kids get to learn that jesus rode o

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Animal Rescues Need Your Help in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey

Co written by Pup Matthias and Patch. Joe Garcia and Heidi. Photo: David J. Phillip / AP Hurricane Harvey has been one of the biggest storms to hit the US.  As a category 4 storm, it hit Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana over the weekend, filling our newsfeed with stories of tragedy, courage, and sacrifice. It puts us as a nation and people to the test. We’ve heard the stories: from big ones like the news crew finding a man trapped in his truck and flagging down emergency vehicles to h

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Fred Patten asks: are “art of” animated movie books necessary?

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. In June, my review of The Art of Cars 3 was posted here. In it, I said: “It has been acknowledged that these “art of” books featuring animated films are money-losers, subsidized by the advertising budgets for those films, made for the promotion of those films and for the morale of the artists and technical crews that produced them. The Art of Cars 3 is full of the art of the animators, layout artists, production designers, st

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BioMutant: a fuzzy new RPG experience is incoming!

Rune’s Furry Blog showcases “people within the Furry Community… their characters, life, thoughts, and beliefs”. It also covers furry issues and media plus some personal blogging. Rune joins other guest posters to Dogpatch Press like Andre Kon (What’s Yiffin’?) and Arrkay (Culturally F’d). Welcome Rune! – Patch Originally, when I heard about BioMutant, I wasn’t sure whether or not it should be featured on my Furry Blog or my Gaming Blog— so I just put it on both! The last time I saw cute, lit

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Furries are winning Emmys and Youtube Creator Awards.

Guest post by Arrkay from Culturally F’d, the furry youtube channel. With all the fire and ‘furry’ in the news, I think we should take a break from the political hardship to look at some awesome positive activity that’s been going on in the fandom. So let’s see what Furry has to celebrate lately: “Vix N dwnq” reaches 100,000 Subscribers on YouTube   A milestone for the fandom. While not the first YouTuber who is a furry to gain the “Silver Play Button”, such as “Your Movie SucksDOTorg” and o

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The Big Bad Fox, by Benjamin Renner – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer The Big Bad Fox, by Benjamin Renner. [Translated by Joe Johnson.] Illustrated. NYC, First Second, June 2017, trade paperback $15.99 (187 pages), Kindle $9.99. Benjamin Renner is a French animator and cartoonist. He first became known in America as the co-director of the 2012 Belgian animated feature Ernest & Célestine, released in America in 2013. That was an adaptation of Belgian children’s books by Gabrielle Vincent, and

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