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Trailer: The Secret Life of Pets 2
Summer of 2019 we get Secret Life Of Pets 2 ... man they really did fast-track this thing.
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Magics Best Left Hidden
You may recall we told you about Patrick and Jessica Reilly, a pair of U.S. military veterans who work together as a creative team. Well here’s an update: After some successful fundraising through Patreon the first issue their black & white fantasy comic Five Realms has been released. “Join Mehan, Ronin Prince of the Mallow Clan, his best friend Gellaze, and his student Iwain as they uncover the mysteries surrounding a ‘Golden King’ buried deep within a dust-chocked canyon.” The 1st issue is available at their Etsy store and a 2nd is due this winter.
image c. 2018 Zonks Illustration
Trailer: Stuffed
Trapped in a World He Never Evolved For
Richard Fairgray is a well-known comic book artist and children’s book illustrator in his native New Zealand. (Interesting fact from his Wikipedia: Richard illustrates and animates his own works, even though he is legally blind.) His best-known work, Blastosaurus, created quite a sensation in his homeland. Now living in Southern California, Richard has re-launched his comic with the help of Paul Eiding and Golden Apple Books. From Previews: “Blastosaurus, a 6-foot-tall, mutant triceratops, aided by Tabitha Jones and Richard Green (the twelve-year-old sidekicks he never asked for) battles monsters, robots, sentient meatballs and whatever other weirdness Freak Out City can throw at him. This action/fantasy all-ages book is big, stupid fun, grounded by a real emotional core and the most human dinosaur you’ll ever meet!” And look, there’s a YouTube preview as well. Blastosaurus is out in comic shops now.
image c. 2018 Golden Apple Books
Spies in Disguise
Well, looks like we have a surprise furry movie. "Super spy Lance Sterling (Will Smith) and scientist Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is… not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if this odd couple can’t learn to work as a team, the whole world is in peril. SPIES IN DISGUISE is an animated comedy set in the high-octane globe-trotting world of international espionage."
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Episode 48 - Shark destiny
Episode 47 - Sharks abound
The Real Pokebusters
Friends In Spite Of Everything
We had not heard of this, but evidently it’s a thing — and now it’s collected all together. “Anouk Ricard’s bold and colorful comics of this quirky, grumpy gang of pals are delightfully weird yet thoroughly realistic in their honest and hilarious portrayal of friendship. Anna, Froga, Christopher the worm, Ron the cat, and Bubu the dog continue their non-adventures with bickering, needling, cajoling, and honest friendship. No white lie goes unexposed, no small embarrassment goes unrevealed, no secret is kept, everyone’s foibles are fodder for jokes. Anna and Froga: Completely Bubu collects all five issues of the acclaimed Anna & Froga series into an accessible paperback.” It’s out now from Drawn & Quarterly.
image c. 2018 Drawn & Quarterly
FC-312 Smelling Mistake - Kota, Tol and Astro join us this week for a packed show.
Kota, Tol and Astro join us this week for a packed show.
Watch Video Link Roundup:- Statement from Blaze Fusky’s family
- Paradox was in the hospital for a few days
- SciShow werewolf myth origins
- Kansas City Police Recover Stolen Inflatable Colon
- Shades of Elysium pre-alpha build 1.4.0
- Bojack Renewed for Season 6
- Radioactive Wolves Of Chernobyl
- Florida man accused of throwing sex toy on field during Buffalo Bills’ game
- lhi audio – cadmium
- Someone superchatted LTT WAN show and asked Linus and Luke what their fursonas are
- PolarTheLion’s video for Infurnity 2018
- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks
- Bulltaur at parade
- Pensacola Man Rampages Neighbourhood Looking to Fight
- Man Shot by Dog
- GOOD sounding cheese
- Woman who had sex with 20 ghosts is now engaged to a spirit
- Antarctic scientist ‘stabs colleague who kept telling him endings of books he was reading’
- Man uses blowtorch to kill spiders, sets parents’ home on fire
- Cops Eat Donuts After Finding Stolen Krispy Kreme Truck
- Koda Greymane – How to tell if someone’s a closet furry
- Merci beaucoup – A New and better life, thanks to the fandom
- Mfalme Lion – Job searches
[Live] Smelling Mistake
Kota, Tol and Astro join us this week for a packed show.
Link Roundup:- Statement from Blaze Fusky’s family
- Paradox was in the hospital for a few days
- SciShow werewolf myth origins
- Kansas City Police Recover Stolen Inflatable Colon
- Shades of Elysium pre-alpha build 1.4.0
- Bojack Renewed for Season 6
- Radioactive Wolves Of Chernobyl
- Florida man accused of throwing sex toy on field during Buffalo Bills’ game
- lhi audio – cadmium
- Someone superchatted LTT WAN show and asked Linus and Luke what their fursonas are
- PolarTheLion’s video for Infurnity 2018
- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks
- Bulltaur at parade
- Pensacola Man Rampages Neighbourhood Looking to Fight
- Man Shot by Dog
- GOOD sounding cheese
- Woman who had sex with 20 ghosts is now engaged to a spirit
- Antarctic scientist ‘stabs colleague who kept telling him endings of books he was reading’
- Man uses blowtorch to kill spiders, sets parents’ home on fire
- Cops Eat Donuts After Finding Stolen Krispy Kreme Truck
- Koda Greymane – How to tell if someone’s a closet furry
- Merci beaucoup – A New and better life, thanks to the fandom
- Mfalme Lion – Job searches
I Want a Monster to Be My Playmate
Monster Mayhem is a new full-color graphic novel written and illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos. “Zoe’s favorite thing to do—besides invent and build robots — is watch classic monster movies. She has never been comfortable with kids her own age, and so she pretends she doesn’t need friends while inside she’s longing for connection. And then one day, Zoe finds a mysterious ring on her way home from school. She puts it on, gives it a twist, and — FRZAAKK! There’s a massive burst of light! The next morning, a familiar monster appears at Zoe’s window. He’s from one of her favorite kaiju movies, and he likes Zoe — he wants to be her friend. Has her secret wish been fulfilled? But it turns out that Zoe’s ring has brought more than just this friendly monster to life. More monsters have arrived, and they are hungry! Now she’ll need to reach out to other people to help her save her town from destruction. Good thing she’s a robotics genius!” Got all that? It’s available now in hardcover from Dial Books.
image c. 2018 Dial Books
Tōth: No Reason
Really, does one NEED a reason for birds? "A human to bird interface becomes a source of happiness for no reason."
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All The World Shall Be Your Enemy
How on Earth did we not hear about this coming up? Well thanks to The Nerdist we did — and just in time too, as the newly-animated Watership Down is due very soon! “The BBC and Netflix are releasing a new CG-animated version this Christmas, and in order to more accurately portray the book, it’s going to come in two feature-length installments. The cast was already all-star, with James McAvoy as refugee rabbit leader Hazel, Nicholas Hoult as the psychic runt Fiver, John Boyega as the intimidating fighter Bigwig, Olivia Colman as bereaved doe Strawberry (a gender-flip from the book), Ben Kingsley as villain General Woundwort, Tom Wilkinson as doomed elder Threarah, and Taron Egerton as the rabbit Christ-analogue El-ahrairah (meaning “prince with a thousand enemies”). But now, via an official BBC announcement, they’ve revealed even more: Peter Capaldi will play the bunnies’ seagull ally Kehaar, Daniel Kaluuya is warren destruction survivor Bluebell, and Rosamund Pike is the Black Rabbit of Inle, a death/Satan figure and counterpart to the rabbit deity Frith.” All that plus director Noam Murro, the man behind 300: Rise of an Empire. Look for it on Netflix this coming December.
image c. 2018 BBC
Halloween Stream! - we're trying to get 10k subscribers on Youtube! …
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Commercial: Ring Pop Gummy Gems
Ok, I really want to know more about this "Harewolf" brother of these witches. "We were asked to bring back our crazy Witchy sisters and their Harewolf brother for another Topps advertising campaign for out friends at Nickelodeon Creative Services, New York." https://vimeo.com/239828182
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Panique au Zoo; Une Enquête de Poulpe et Castor Burma, by Frédéric Bagères (story), Marie Voyelle (art), Jerôme Alvarez (colors) – Book Review by Fred Patten
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.
Panique au Zoo; Une Enquête de Poulpe et Castor Burma, by Frédéric Bagères (story), Marie Voyelle (art), Jerôme Alvarez (colors).
Paris, Éditions Delcourt, June 2018, trade paperback, €23,95 (187 [+ 5] pages), Kindle €16,99.
Fred Patten and Lex Nakashima strike again!
“Built in 1740, at the far northern end of the isle, the Canon Zoo is the oldest and greatest zoo in the world. Founded in the XVI century by the monk Sylvestre Marie, it is today managed exclusively by its occupants.
“Aimed at an instructive goal, it offers its visitors, through its presentation of natural habitats, the chance to see how they have lived, over the centuries to the present, “animals in a state of nature”.” The sign is defaced with a graffiti-scrawl saying, “Obey!”
The first pages, a general meeting in the director’s office (a tapir), establish that things are different today. (Also that the dialogue is full of French puns and double-entendres.) Something is causing some of the animals to mutate into forms that are embarrassing at best, potentially fatal at worst. The director has hired two private detectives, Octopus and Beaver Burma, to find the reason and stop it.
“Eight months ago, some employees began showing the first symptoms. I think the otters were the first.”
“What do you mean?”
“They became covered with spines.”
“Like porcupines?”
“Exactly.”
“Like ‘otter-pines?’”
“If you like. They’re incapable today of running their stand in the zoo.”
“What are they selling?”
“Balloons.”
[…]
“Next it was the turn of those that your colleague would call the ‘polar urchins’, who are living today in the canteen’s freezer.”
“Then the ‘cat-pony’ that we put into the Asian animal enclosure.”
“And the ‘oyster-constrictor’ who spends his days trying to swallow the ‘rat-engale’ trying to find its voice.”
“The affair took a nasty turn when we found the “serpent-pie-thon’ dead, of self-asphyxiation. The animals began to get scared.”
Octopus and Beaver Burma start questioning the animals in the zoo. Did the otter-pines notice anything different at the time they began growing needles? Yeah, it was right when Maurice, the oldest animal in the zoo – a dodo – retired.
Do you have any idea what’s caused these changes?
Pollution! Nuclear radiation! Allergies! Satellites! Picon beer? [a popular French beer] The ozone layer? Egyptian water! [one of the ten Biblical Egyptian plagues] Progress! Wi-Fi! Extraterrestrials! Graffitti? Black magic? The OGM? [Genetically Modified food] My Aunt Hortense! God?
“What’s next on the list?”
“Two species quarantined because their metamorphoses has ostracized them. They’re in the vivariums: the anacondoctopus and the pengoctopus.”
“Will you stop with the stupid species names?”
“I make no promises.”
The pengoctopus guesses that the zoo is built over a haunted bison grave, while the anacondoctopus is sure it’s a plot of the veterinarians, one of whom (“A charming man.”) is named Doctor Moreau.
Well, this is only up to page 25. Have a good time in the remaining 162 pages seeing all the animal combinations, figuring out who the villain is, and the motivation for the plot. I’m not a fan of Voyelle’s artwork, but Bagères’s story is very funny.
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FWG Blog – November 2018
It’s November, bringing us ever-closer to the end of 2018! It’s time for the FWG Blog Post!
Guild Newsroom
For those that missed the announcement last month, membership is now available to self-published authors! For more details on how you can qualify as a self-published author, check out our membership guidelines.
Member Highlights
Some highlights from last month, as featured from our FWG Member News section on the forums:
- Pre-orders are live for “Well, It’s Your Cow”, featuring stories by both Madison Keller and Frances Pauli.
- Two more stories by Mary E. Lowd have come out in Daily Science Fiction: “Wing Day” and “Jetpack and Cyborg Wings“.
- By S. ParkS. Park, “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme” will be released in just a couple days! More details can be found on their Tumblr page.
- Televassi has begun a Patreon for his stories! Check it out and support him if you like his work.
To our members that have had something exciting happen in the past month not featured here: be sure to keep up with your Member News thread on the forums! Not only is this how we get our information, but these threads are able to be viewed by any person logged into the forums. Share your achievements with the rest of the writing community!
The Marketplace
For those of you looking to submit, keep an eye on the open markets on our website. For those of you who just forget, The Marketplace is your reminder for all things open for submissions!
Short Story Markets:
Publisher Title Theme Deadline Pay Thurston Howl Publications The Furry Cookbook Furry stories featuring a food or beverage item November 1st $10/story + one copy of the anthology Goal Publications The Daily Grind Furry stories featuring coffee November 14th $0.0075/word + one copy of the anthology Fanged Fiction Thrill of the Hunt Furry erotica featuring a predator/prey dynamic December 1st $0.0075/word + one copy of the anthology Zooscape Zine Zooscape Excellent furry stories N/A (continually open at this time) $0.06/word (maximum $60) for original, $20 for reprints Thurston Howl Publications Species: Bunnies Furry stories featuring bunnies January 1st One copy of the anthology (non-paying) Thurston Howl Publications Breeds: Bunnies Furry erotica featuring bunnies January 1st One copy of the anthology (non-paying) FurPlanet Inhuman Acts 2 Furry noir stories February 1st $0.0050/word + one copy of the anthology Thurston Howl Publications Even Furries Hate Nazis Furry stories against Nazism February 15th One copy of the anthology (non-paying)Novel Markets:
- Goal Publications is open until the end of the month for “Pocket Shots”, which are novelettes from 15k-30k words.
- Fanged Fiction is open until the end of the month for 18+ “Pocket Shots”, which are novelettes from 15k-30k words.
- Thurston Howl Publications is open to novel/novella submissions, with no planned date for submissions to close.
Special Events and Announcements
Our revitalized Member Spotlight will be posted on the 7th of November. In addition, our Title Spotlight will be posted on the 15th of November. Stay tuned for those!
In addition to being a Guest of Honor at the upcoming Midwest Furfest, Kyell Gold will also now be a Guest of Honor at Furrydelphia!
Wrap-up
Our forums are open to all writers, not just full members of the FWG. Check them out here and join in on the conversation. While you’re there, check out how to join our Slack and Telegram channels. Before joining any of these, though, we ask that you please read up on our Code of Conduct! With all the negative going around in the world these days, both furry and non-furry, we want to make sure the guild feels like a safe place to all its participants, free of threats and hate speech.
We have two weekly chats, called our Coffeehouse Chats! Our first one is Tuesday at 7:00pm EST in our Slack channel, and our other is Thursdays at Noon EST on our forums in the shoutbox. Both of these chats feature writers talking about writing, usually with a central topic. As with the above, these chats are open to both members and non-members.
Kaiju of Cuteness
Another monstrous item we somehow missed, but now we found out about it thanks to Antarctic Press — and Bleeding Cool. “Cower at the presence of Gao, colossal kaiju of cuteness! This lovable leviathan spends his days under the sea until visiting aliens convince him to make friends on the surface. Gao thus leaves the ocean depths, only to spread shock and d’awww in his wake. This adorable mountain of menace unleashes destruction with every step…but how can you be mad at a face like that?” GAO! was written and illustrated by Alfred Perez for some time as a mini-comic, but now the folks at Antarctic have brought it to light as a new full-color comic miniseries.
image c. 2018 Antarctic Press