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Furry in This Is True this week
Very nice Gucci bags for man with actual photos, Most fashion designer style www.verynicebag.com
Another fairly accurate representation of furries
Bell Ross BR01-92 Heritage www.prettyreplica.com
I think these are fairly accurate representation of furries [nsfw]
Pack Away Your Wolves and Foxes…
Yes, it’s Halloween season… but with stores already starting to think about Christmas, we thought we might help you out with a little pre-holiday shopping. Something we stumbled across thanks to FurAffinity.net: Ikea has these interesting wolf-and-fox themed desk organizers (about 12-inches tall together) for sale, called Barnslig Ringdans (“Childish Ring Dance”). Note the interesting art style. The Ikea ad proudly notes that together they hold 52 CD’s!
Barnslig Ringdans c. Ikea
Behind the Screams: The Weird World of Haunted House Operators
OMGWTF! Furries Saga: The Official Announcement More!
Unsheathed #57 - Unsheathed around the world! Letters from the UK, Australia, the U.S., and maybe Canada, who knows?
Double Entendres, How I’ve Missed You
Good news all you 20-30-somethings that are still lamenting the glory days of ’90s animation. We’re making cartoons now! That generation is now old enough to have graduated CalArts, be practically homeless for a few years, and have now gotten their breaks. The latest in the success stories of goofy dorks that remind me of my Elementary School friends is JG Quintel, and his not so subtly ironically named Regular Show.
The show follows Mordecai and Rigby, a couple of talking animal best friends, who work as oddjobbers on an estate owned by a talking aristocratic lollipop, and maintained by a surly gumball machine, a yeti, and a ghost that gives high fives.
Did I mention it’s wacky?
Mordecai proves that all blue jays are assholes (including our own staff writer, Corvi). Rigby proves all raccoons are crazy dumbasses. But despite both of them promoting stereotypes I just made up, they manage to be lovable in that way that you think the stoner kids in high school were funny in 15 minute intervals only once a week.
The show pushes boundaries that I haven’t seen animated shows do since the ’90s. I hesitate to say mature, since jokes about another character’s balls are certainly not, but there’s definitely a reason it’s on right before Adult Swim.
Cartoon Network has finally realized that less is more, and the 15 minute episodes of Regular Show and Adventure Time just strengthen both series. It’s a small taste of the humor that keeps me craving more, instead of drowning me in the show by having multi-hour marathons every week (see: every other show on Cartoon Network).
Regular Show finds the right balance of crazy, off the wall humor, without being totally random or full of non sequiturs. Also the raccoon knows how to hambone!
I found this cool web comic called Ballerina Mafia. It's kinda new, but it has furry animals! This is the first comic.
ACTfur s2 ep15 - Fandom Lurve
Furry Gamers Vent server (repost!)
Bambee - Bambi gone wrong
What my roommate wants me to wear to Hallow Freakin' Ween (it's a rave).
Video of an eagle fursuit taking a spear on a WWE wrestling show
Season 5 - Show 20
Furry in Spirit, Not by Definition
Amulet
by Kazu Kibuishi
Scholastic Books
If there’s anything my partner and I have learned from repeated visits to comic conventions, it’s that there are a whole lot of comics out there featuring animal-people that do not identify themselves as “furry” because the creators don’t. We’ve long been aware of Kazu Kibuishi’s beautiful and charming webcomic Copper, the story of an adventurous boy and his more cautious canine companion (also available in collected form from Scholastic—just sayin’). A few years back, we picked up the first volume of Kibuishi’s new story series Amulet, and were hooked.
Amulet is the story of Emily and Navin, who are moving with their mother to an old family home after the death of their father puts the family in financial stress. The house was the property of Emily’s eccentric great-grandfather Silas, so it’s not long before the kids discover an old workshop where Silas built his many toys. And it’s not much later before a creepy monster that looks like the offspring of an octopus and a lamprey swallows their mother, leading them back through a magical passage in the house’s basement to a strange world.
If it weren’t for the odd amulet Emily found in the workshop, the kids would not have survived their fight with the octolamprey (technically called an arachnopod). But the amulet speaks into Emily’s mind and gives her the power to fight off the creature, if not to free her mother. The amulet then leads them to a house and a strange collection of friends, and the quest to recover their mother becomes something much greater.
The furriest thing in volume 1 (“The Stonekeeper”) is a stuffed pink rabbit named Miskit, who’s been built by Great-Grandfather Silas to be Emily’s companion and guide. But in volume 2 (“The Stonekeeper’s Curse”), the kids arrive at the city of Kanalis, and meet its inhabitants, who, Miskit explains, “are very slowly being altered by an ancient curse. It is what gives them the appearance of animals.” Emily says how terrible that is, and Miskit replies, “I don’t believe they see it as anything quite so negative. This curse has affected them for so many years that the new generations see it as simply a fact of life.”
And yes, the book is full of animal-people. Mammals, birds, even mollusks and other, odder creatures. But it is not spoiling anything to tell you that the most important one is a fellow named Leon Redbeard, who is a fox (he’s on the cover, see, not just of the second book, but also of the third, “The Cloud Searchers”). He understands the power of Emily’s amulet and knows much more about the shadowy figures now hunting her because of it.
Even without the furry element, these books would be recommended. Kibuishi has a good sense of storytelling and an even better sense of art and design. His style is a lovely, simple fusion of Japanese and European comic styles—think Moebius drawing manga. The simplicity of the characters makes them appealing and distinctive, and although his art tends to simplify, Kibuishi is certainly capable of rendering lush, gorgeous backgrounds.
The coloring really stands out as well. Like the art itself, it’s deceptively simple. Kibuishi is a master of light and shadow, in which even the simplest panels take on life. Though the story is worth reading, I often found myself just flipping through the comic to look at the art in some of the more detailed panels.
And the story complements the art well. Emily’s rapport with her family is shown very nicely in a few pages, and although her story is somewhat reactive at the start (her mother is kidnapped and she must give chase), Emily is given plenty of choices to think about and make along the way. The amulet promises power, but makes no secret of its price (though it does not tell the whole story all at once, of course). And the mysterious stranger stalking the children as soon as they arrive in the new land has his own story, which proves to be intertwined with theirs.
Amulet is accessible to children, but the stories are complex enough to be enjoyed by adults, too. If it takes a heroic fox to get you to look at the book, so be it. You won’t be disappointed.
(You can still find Copper online, as well as Kibuishi’s other projects, at http://www.boltcity.com/. )