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My Little Pony: The Art of Equestria – Book Review by Fred Patten
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.
My Little Pony: The Art of Equestria, by Mary Jane Begin. Foreword by Jayson Thiessen. Illustrated.
NYC, Abrams, October 2015, hardcover $29.95 (215 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $13.49.
Furry fandom has had a sometimes adversarial relationship with the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic TV series and its fandom, or at least its Brony often-extremist fans. The TV animated cartoon series that premiered on October 10, 2010 is in its fifth season/year now. It has won the Ursa Major Award as the Best Anthropomorphic Dramatic Short or Series for 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013, resulting in screams of both (from within furry fandom), “Oh, no! How could it have lost!?” (in 2014, to Furry Force), and (from Brony fandom), “How dare you furry fans try to hijack our program!? MLP:FIM is totally unanthropomorphic! The ponies of Equestria can just talk and sometimes fly, that’s all!”
My Little Pony: The Art of Equestria is an Everything You Want To Know About MLP:FIM, lavish, heavily-illustrated, full-color coffee-table art book. It has already been reviewed and analyzed in detail by the MLP:FIM fans, to general praise. Here is a review for furry fandom.
The book is a how-to and how-it-was-done about the TV animation series and the development of its world of Equestria, rather than an exploration in detail of Equestria and the “Mane Six” ponies, although the reader does get that, too. It begins with a double-page map, described below. A Foreword by the Supervising Director at DHX Media, the animation studio in Vancouver, outlines on one page the basic framework of the series.
“Equestria is a land where the dominant sentient life-forms are derived from the genus Equus – basically, horse-like creatures. Since there are no humans in Equestria, everything that was ever designed or built in this world had to be done by ponies, for ponies. Tables, chairs, doorways, props – all have to work in a way that befits a world existing under this premise. […] There are three basic types of ponies: Unicorns, Pegasus ponies, and Earth ponies. Unicorns, as we all know, are horses with a single horn on their forehead that can cast magic. They are the upper-class elite who live in the mountains. Their cities are made of more robust and expensive materials: stone, granite, and marble. Everything is polished and shiny. Pegasus ponies are winged, they fly and live in the clouds. So their cities are literally made of clouds and are built with fliers in mind: No stairs are needed, and roofs are optional since it doesn’t rain above the clouds. There is a distinctly ancient Greek aesthetic about it, with all the architecture, and this is a nod to the Greek mythological character for which they are named. Finally, there are the Earth ponies, who keep their hooves planted firmly on the ground. They are regular ponies without any fancy appendages who live in more traditional-looking houses and towns like we are used to seeing and deal mostly with earthbound issues such as agriculture and animals. All of this is kept in mind when we’re designing locations to ensure that it feels logical that those characters would actually live I the environment hey are placed in.” (p. 9)
There are seven main parts. “Pony Evolution” is the history of Hasbro’s My Little Pony from 1983, when the toy line was launched, to the present. “Everypony” is a profile of “The Mane Six” characters of today (Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie), and their “extended family: Spike, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and the other major characters. “Foils & Foes” describes some recurring villains like Ahuizotl, King Sombra, and Lord Tirek. “Creatures & Mythical Beasts” lists some of the dangerous non-sentient wild animals of Equestria; classic beasts like the Cerberus, Chimera, and Minotaur, and new creations like the Timberwolf (a giant wolf of living wood), Cragadile, and Sea Serpent. “Exploring Equestria” examines some principal cities and towns such as Ponyville, Cloudsdale, the capital of Canterlot, and specific locations like Twilight Sparkle’s Golden Oak Library and Applejack’s Sweet Apple Acres. “Behind the Scenes” is technical information. And “Pony Revolution” looks to the future.
The art includes many artists’ rough sketches, including creator Lauren Faust’s presentation that brought Hasbro’s existing toy line & TV cartoons into the present. There are discarded early designs of some main characters showing what they might have looked like. And there is that double-page map that leads the book off. The series’ developers clearly had fun creating equine-based place names mimicking those around North America, from the metropolises of Manehattan and Filly Delphia on the East Coast to Vanhoover and Los Pegasus in the West, and landmarks such as the San Palomino Desert.
My Little Pony: The Art of Equestria is designed for both the casual fan and the regular watcher of the TV series. “My Little Pony: The Art of Equestria is the ultimate guidebook, collector’s item, and fan keepsake.” (blurb) Well, it should satisfy everyone except the fanatic followers who want an illustrated profile of all 117 (as of press time) episodes.
He Can’t Not Draw
Or so he says, anyway. “Physically incapable of not drawing.” You might be glad for this when you view the works of Nero O’Reilly with his decidedly modernist graphic arts style. He’s created several short comic-book style pieces with titles like Carnivore Planet, Red Rivers, and Crystal Wizard, as well as plenty of stand-alone art pieces in both color and black and white. Which you can view at this web site, Trumpet Shark. (Fair warning: Some of his works are of a decidedly adults-only nature.) His site also includes his personal store where you can pick up his works in print form, on buttons, or on stickers.
image c. 2016 by Nero O’Reilly
TigerTails Radio Season 9 Episode 29
Off Leash – Book Review by Fred Patten
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.
Off Leash, by Daniel Potter. Illustrated by Sabertooth Ermine.
El Cerrito, CA, Fallen Kitten Productions, October 2015, trade paperback $12.99 (vi + i +288 pages), Kindle $3.99.
“It had started as a good day. Objectively that was a lie, but after six months of unemployment self-delusion becomes a survival trait. I was two days from getting booted off unemployment, with my girlfriend AWOL for the last week. By ‘good day’ I mean I had wrestled a small drop of hope out of my heart that one of the half dozen jobs I had applied to while guzzling down iced coffees might result in an interview.” (p. 1)
Thomas Khatt, unemployed librarian, has been practically living in his local coffee shop for the last six months as he applies for job after job. Over the weeks he has noticed his reclusive neighbor as another regular customer; an old man, presumably retired, reading books with a pet cat. One day Thomas and the old man happen to leave the shop at the same time. The old man is immediately struck by a hit-&-run car. As he dies, Thomas blacks out and awakens in his own home as a cougar.
While he is trying to figure out what has happened to him, his door unlocks itself and an elderly hippie witch, Mistress Sabrina, comes in to welcome him to “the Real World”. She demonstrates enough magical power to convince him that objecting would be a bad idea, so he follows her and Rudy, a talking squirrel, to her home where he meets her familiar, a sable named Cornealius. They magically restore his power of speech. While this is going on, Thomas is barraged with a confusing flood of information about how the Real World works:
“‘TAU?’ I paced below him [Rudy], eyes crossing, trying to look at my muzzle, the spell wire looked to thread in and out of it.
Rudy responded with the tone of voice of a phone employee reading the company boilerplate. ‘Talking Animal Union. We represent all animals with the gift of speech or capable of speech within the domain of the council of Merlins. An animal being defined as a being possessing corporeal form but lacking hands and viewed as nonhuman by those on the other side of the Veil. The TAU endeavors to insure familiars are well treated and allows no bonding to take place without its blessing.’” (p. 32)
Thomas is overwhelmed by what he learns, but generally doesn’t like the sound of it:
“I watched the squirrel warily; every question I asked generated at least a half dozen more. Yet one thing had become crystal clear; I wanted no part of this world. Losing my thumbs, my house and my girlfriend in exchange for the chance to be sold off to some pimple-faced apprentice did not sound like a fair deal to me.” (p. 35)
He especially doesn’t like it when he starts to wonder how and why it applies to him in particular:
“My thoughts drifted out, back into the world. How had this happened to me? My mind probed into the last day, looking for things I had overlooked. It all went back to the old man, who had to be another magus. O’Meara had said that a magus named Archibald had been murdered. What had the baristas called the old man? Archie? Archie the Archmagus, poor guy. And that horrible car accident – surely nothing about it had been accidental.” (p. 43)
Thomas decides to take charge of his own life, even if he is not familiar with the Real World yet. He faces the dangers of our “world beyond the Veil”, of being a cougar loose in a San Francisco residential neighborhood, and of the Real World, refusing to join the TAU or to become bound to a magus – or to an apprentice – as a familiar.
“To stay off the leash, he’ll have to take advantage of the chaos caused by the local Archmagus’ death and help the Inquisition solve his murder. A pyromaniac squirrel, religious werewolves, and cat-hating cops all add to the pandemonium as Thomas attempts to become the first Freelance Familiar.” (blurb)
Yes, this is Book 1 of a series, and judging by Off Leash, it’s a winner. All of the characters are intelligent, with many in the Real World hiding secrets. Potter’s writing is wry and full of detail: “The cat, who looked like the sort of thing a Chihuahua could beat up for lunch money” … “For a moment I feared I had fallen into a Disney film and the kitchen appliances were about to burst into song. I gave the toaster a withering look just in case.” … “No need to sweat, or in my case, pant, however.” … “‘It’s bigger on the inside,’ voices from Doctor Who exclaimed in my head. They were right.” … “The white cat rolled her eyes. ‘I’m so glad I was never human. The thumb fetish you all have is so undignified.’” Thomas, in looking out for himself as a cougar in two worlds, becomes enmeshed in the deadly magical politics of the Real World.
Stories of one individual taking on The System are always enjoyable, and are doubly so when it’s a partially furry system. Off Leash does not feature just animal-headed humans. The animal natures of the talking but otherwise unmodified cougar, the squirrel, the owl, the housecat, the redneck werewolves, and others are important plot elements.
Some additional information: The Kindle edition was published in July, three months ahead of the paper edition. The cover is attributed to Ebooklaunch.com, which offers covers from $99 to $379; presumably this is one of the customized, more expensive ones. The illustration by Sabertooth Ermine [sic.; she usually goes by Sabretoothed Ermine] consists of just a single full-page drawing just before the end of the book. The author’s Fallen Kitten Productions website contains an offer of a free ebook story, “Rudy and the Warren Warriors”, featuring the pyromaniac squirrel.
Guild News: February 2016
Welcome to our newest member Frances Pauli!
Member NewsBook news: Fred Patten’s latest anthology, Cats and More Cats, was released at Further Confusion and will soon be available for order from FurPlanet‘s website. The first furry anthology from Jaffa Books, Claw the Way to Victory, was released at Anthro New England and is edited by Sean Rivercritic of AnthroAquatic. Bill Kieffer’s novella The Goat: Building a Perfect Victim is forthcoming from Red Ferret Press.
Short stories: You can read Madison “Makyo” Scott-Clary’s story “Milkshakes and Foxes” in the Further Confusion conbook, and Mary E. Lowd’s flash fiction piece “Dealership with the Devil” is online at Theme of Absence. (Check out their interview with her as well.)
Rechan has been accepted as an Associate Editor at EMP Publishing, for their online horror magazine, and in crowdfunding news, Joel Kreissman has begun a Kickstarter campaign to fund illustrations for his novel.
Congratulations, everyone!
(Members: Want your news here? Start a thread in our Member News forum!)
Market NewsUpcoming deadlines: The second issue of A Glimpse of Anthropomorphic Literature is reading through February 15, and Fur the ‘More is seeking “Cubicle Jungle” submissions for its conbook until February 15 (maximum 2000 words, full info here). FANG Volume 7 and FurPlanet’s science fiction horror anthology both close on March 1; see guidelines for both anthologies here.
Remember to keep an eye on our Calls for Submissions thread and our Publishing and Marketing forum for all the latest news and openings!
Guild NewsWe’re seeking an editor for the next volume of our Tales From the Guild anthology! See this post in our forums for more information, and if you’re interested, please get in touch by February 21.
Want to hang out and talk shop with other furry writers? Come join us in the forum shoutbox for the Coffeehouse Chats, Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern and Thursdays at 12 p.m. Eastern. More info on the Coffeehouse Chats is here. (Remember, our forums are open to everyone, not just FWG members. Come register and join the conversation!)
Elsewhere on the Internet, we have a Goodreads group with a bookshelf featuring books by our members. Feel free to add any members’ books we’ve missed so far (see the instructions here on how to do that). We also have a Telegram group, and you can find more info on that and a link in this thread.
Remember, we’re always open for guest blog post submissions from FWG members — it’s a great way to help out fellow writers. See our guidelines for the details.
Have a happy and creative February! If you have news, suggestions, or other feedback to share, send an email to furwritersguild (at) gmail.com or leave a comment below.
All Things Painterly
Laura Garabedian is a painter and illustrator who made the decision a few years ago to “go it full time” as an artist. To that end she has developed several signature styles and subjects, including animal shapes assumed by trees and animals decorated with Native American scripts and designs. As well as your “more standard” fantasy settings. (Is there such a thing?) Her Etsy store features several of her works in print form and also painted on ceramic, but her main web page will show you a more complete collection of her work.
image c. 2016 by Laura Garabedian
Ep 59 – Suspend Your Disbelief - Hello Fangs and Fontians! Suspend your disbelief this week with Ocean, Yanarra, and Tarl! Contrary to the belief on the podcast, Roland’s reason for being late to his aircraft for reasons beyond his control! But listen as
Hello Fangs and Fontians!
Suspend your disbelief this week with Ocean, Yanarra, and Tarl!
Contrary to the belief on the podcast, Roland’s reason for being late to his aircraft for reasons beyond his control! But listen as the crew relays his well thought out notes and be dismayed by his lack of counter-arguments!
Send us your feedback, questions, concerns, complaints:
@FangsAndFonts
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-Roland
Ep 59 – Suspend Your Disbelief - Hello Fangs and Fontians! Suspend your disbelief this week with Ocean, Yanarra, and Tarl! Contrary to the belief on the podcast, Roland’s reason for being late to his aircraft for reasons beyond his control! But listen as the crew relays his well [...]Hang It On Your Chest, Hang It On Your Body
Myrtle’s Monsters is the home of one Myrtle Monster (makes sense), a fan who has made a name for herself in a very short time. Since 2013 Myrtle has been creating not only fur-suits but that other so-popular furry art form, personal character art badges. Her personal web site features a full-color gallery of her already-extensive work as well as commission information.
image c. 2016 Myrtle Monster
FC-225 Fox Jenga - Our Canadian cragon friend joins us this week while we read tons of news, have a laugh at #TonyTigerGate, and possibly regret our life choices. Wait, that's every week.
Our Canadian cragon friend joins us this week while we read tons of news, have a laugh at #TonyTigerGate, and possibly regret our life choices. Wait, that’s every week.
Watch Video Discovered Media:- Pizza Hut “Knot or Pizza first” tweet
- Holy Quran Experiment
- How Humor Evolved in Animals DNews
- What makes something not funny DNews
- HBO: Animals Trailer
- Furries Destroy Artwork Courtcase
- Culturally F’d: Hugs, the furry handshake
- KartFox Taur Plush
- Gay Bottom Bible
- NEW ZOOTOPIA CLIP
- The latest deviancy they’re trying to mainstream
- Pesky Redfox now permanent White House resident
- Coyotes Staring Down Drivers May Be Stoned
- Cyanobacteria Toxin May Cause Dementia
- My Little Pony sued for using pirated font
- Dreamkeeprs – “Dreamkeepers Contest of Factions”
- Spook – “Lend a Bunny Advice”
- Chris Otter – “Hashtag TonyTheTigerGate”
- Bearsky – “Studio Setup/Move”
- Fox – “What’s it like in Muricahhh!!!”
- Ladon – “Scared to commission”
- Naylor – “Dear Paradox”
- Piro Rat – “A question from a fan”
FC-225 Fox Jenga - Our Canadian cragon friend joins us this week while we read tons of news, have a laugh at #TonyTigerGate, and possibly regret our life choices. Wait, that's every week.
Our Canadian cragon friend joins us this week while we read tons of news, have a laugh at #TonyTigerGate, and possibly regret our life choices. Wait, that’s every week.
Watch Video Discovered Media:- Pizza Hut “Knot or Pizza first” tweet
- Holy Quran Experiment
- How Humor Evolved in Animals DNews
- What makes something not funny DNews
- HBO: Animals Trailer
- Furries Destroy Artwork Courtcase
- Culturally F’d: Hugs, the furry handshake
- KartFox Taur Plush
- Gay Bottom Bible
- NEW ZOOTOPIA CLIP
- The latest deviancy they’re trying to mainstream
- Pesky Redfox now permanent White House resident
- Coyotes Staring Down Drivers May Be Stoned
- Cyanobacteria Toxin May Cause Dementia
- My Little Pony sued for using pirated font
- Dreamkeeprs – “Dreamkeepers Contest of Factions”
- Spook – “Lend a Bunny Advice”
- Chris Otter – “Hashtag TonyTheTigerGate”
- Bearsky – “Studio Setup/Move”
- Fox – “What’s it like in Muricahhh!!!”
- Ladon – “Scared to commission”
- Naylor – “Dear Paradox”
- Piro Rat – “A question from a fan”
[Live] Fox Jenga - Our Canadian cragon friend joins us this week while we read tons of news, have a laugh at #TonyTigerGate, and possibly regret our life choices. Wait, that's every week.
Our Canadian cragon friend joins us this week while we read tons of news, have a laugh at #TonyTigerGate, and possibly regret our life choices. Wait, that’s every week.
Watch Video Discovered Media:- Pizza Hut “Knot or Pizza first” tweet
- Holy Quran Experiment
- How Humor Evolved in Animals DNews
- What makes something not funny DNews
- HBO: Animals Trailer
- Furries Destroy Artwork Courtcase
- Culturally F’d: Hugs, the furry handshake
- KartFox Taur Plush
- Gay Bottom Bible
- NEW ZOOTOPIA CLIP
- The latest deviancy they’re trying to mainstream
- Pesky Redfox now permanent White House resident
- Coyotes Staring Down Drivers May Be Stoned
- Cyanobacteria Toxin May Cause Dementia
- My Little Pony sued for using pirated font
- Dreamkeeprs – “Dreamkeepers Contest of Factions”
- Spook – “Lend a Bunny Advice”
- Chris Otter – “Hashtag TonyTheTigerGate”
- Bearsky – “Studio Setup/Move”
- Fox – “What’s it like in Muricahhh!!!”
- Ladon – “Scared to commission”
- Naylor – “Dear Paradox”
- Piro Rat – “A question from a fan”
FC-225 Fox Jenga - Our Canadian cragon friend joins us this week while we read tons of news, have a laugh at #TonyTigerGate, and possibly regret our life choices. Wait, that's every week.
Our Canadian cragon friend joins us this week while we read tons of news, have a laugh at #TonyTigerGate, and possibly regret our life choices. Wait, that’s every week.
Watch Video Discovered Media:- Pizza Hut “Knot or Pizza first” tweet
- Holy Quran Experiment
- How Humor Evolved in Animals DNews
- What makes something not funny DNews
- HBO: Animals Trailer
- Furries Destroy Artwork Courtcase
- Culturally F’d: Hugs, the furry handshake
- KartFox Taur Plush
- Gay Bottom Bible
- NEW ZOOTOPIA CLIP
- The latest deviancy they’re trying to mainstream
- Pesky Redfox now permanent White House resident
- Coyotes Staring Down Drivers May Be Stoned
- Cyanobacteria Toxin May Cause Dementia
- My Little Pony sued for using pirated font
- Dreamkeeprs – “Dreamkeepers Contest of Factions”
- Spook – “Lend a Bunny Advice”
- Chris Otter – “Hashtag TonyTheTigerGate”
- Bearsky – “Studio Setup/Move”
- Fox – “What’s it like in Muricahhh!!!”
- Ladon – “Scared to commission”
- Naylor – “Dear Paradox”
- Piro Rat – “A question from a fan”
Episode -51 - Adam is still a goat!
After #tonytigergate, companies go Pro Furry and the Daily Show gets involved.
The Year of Furry keeps bringing unexpected surprises. Shortly before 2016’s furry fever explodes with Zootopia, here’s the satirical scandal of #tonytigergate.
Get ready to hack up a hairball about this, if you want furry fandom to get taken seriously without a speck of sexy humor about make-believe mascots. (Or if you’re prudish and think cartoon kink is worse than ISIS.) Stuff like this must have Disney’s defensive shields on maximum.
It started with furry flirting at Tony the Tiger’s Twitter account. In November 2015, news media noticed that he was a long time Furry crush. The buff, yiffable mascot for Frosted Flakes couldn’t tweet about cereal without pleas for his sweet tigermanmilk. I shared all the news stories I could find about it:
- Tony the Tiger is being harassed by horny furries on Twitter
- Furries Take Cat-Calling To The Next Level On Tony The Tiger’s Twitter
- Tony The Tiger’s Twitter Account Keeps Getting Mentioned By Furries Looking For Sex
- Tony the Tiger gets harassed by furries all the time on Twitter
- Tony the Tiger Can’t Tweet Without Furries Begging Him for Sex
Kelloggs Answers Requests For Tony Tiger Dick Pics With 'Adult Edition' Cereal Kept Behind Counter @Gawker @realtonytiger @ashleyfeinberg
— Dogpatch Press (@DogpatchPress) November 9, 2015If y'all weren't aware, John Harvey Kellogg invented corn flakes to stop children from masturbating. Apparently it didn't work.
— Mouse of Habsburg (@favoritemouse) January 28, 2016Tony’s sex appeal is a little ironic, when Kellogg’s is a company with the most over-the-top, puritanical sex-negative history you can imagine.
On the flip side, be amused or confused about a really dirty meaning for Tony’s bandana in gay hanky code. This is hilarious to strange, dark corners of the internet. Here’s a reference about it for those into Serious Cinema as much as Cereal Sin. In 1980’s Cruising, Al Pacino learns things as an undercover cop:
Tony the Tiger turns tail.
Behind the scenes with Tony’s social media team, all of this heat was too much to handle. Maybe they felt like it was Brand Vandalism… and this wasn’t even the first time this fall that Tony was target for a well organized prank. The first had nothing to do with furries- that PR crisis was fake, satirical ads.
Things came to a head in January 2016. They started blocking all furries en masse, whether they deserved it or not.
- Gawker: Tony the Tiger Turns His Back on Twitter’s Horny Furries
- Huffington Post: Tony The Tiger Is Really Not Into All These Furries Asking For Sex
- NY Daily News: Tony the Tiger is getting harassed on Twitter by sexually aroused furries
- Metro UK: Tony the Tiger has started blocking furries due to their sexual fascination with him
- MTV News: Thirsty Furries Are Sexually Harrassing Tony The Tiger And He Doesn’t Think It’s Grrreat
Furry Twitter today pic.twitter.com/UbGFiVw8Ul
— WCKD DRGNS (@VeryDragons) January 27, 2016
Tony is testy, but Chester Cheetah wants to chill.
Across the internet, furries on the sidelines grabbed popcorn, or wagged their paws in shame. Others cried about rejection by Tony and got the #tonytigergate hashtag trending. This led another corporate spokeskitty to notice the poor, lonely furries.
A TALE OF TWO MASCOTS: HOW FURRIES SPURNED BY TONY THE TIGER ARE BEING EMBRACED BY CHESTER CHEETAH.
In short order, more corporate PR accounts jumped in to show tolerance against Furryphobia. Their free hype was quite a spectacle of capitalist opportunity, with a cheesy coating of fun for those who staffed the boring social media jobs.
@WitchyCats @CasualFennec I welcome all fans to my twitter feed. Scales, feathers, or fur, if you enjoy my tweets then welcome!
— Chester Cheetah (@ChesterCheetah) January 26, 2016i can't fucking handle this, tony the tiger blocked all the furries but chester cheetah is loving it pic.twitter.com/Sf0llpO0kb
— lion to myself (@taizou_hori) January 26, 2016@Aldohusky @CasualFennec We're having an amazing time because we've got you amazing furries to talk to. ~ARA
— Applebee's (@Applebees) January 27, 2016RPing with restaurants is my new favourite thing pic.twitter.com/yLVFU8Myk2
— #Applebae (@CasualFennec) January 27, 2016What about this guy? He probably doesn’t want to come out of the kennel, because all of this publicity is too hot to handle. But check out his Chester fursuit.
Found a furry positive cereal. @RealCapnCrunch and @RealSeaDog are mates for life, says it right on his account. #furries #tonytigergate
— Dogpatch Press (@DogpatchPress) January 28, 2016@RealCapnCrunch is such a furry lover! https://t.co/bT32A14QK0
— Dogpatch Press (@DogpatchPress) January 28, 2016I don’t normally go as a land animal for Halloween, but @ChesterCheetah has the second best facial hair in the biz. pic.twitter.com/EfdP4nVfnX
— Cap'n Crunch (@RealCapnCrunch) October 31, 2015 Tony gets back to selling wholesome diabeetus – and the Daily Show calls.
It must have hurt Tony’s pride to see Chester being the bigger cat. Alpha jocks can be like that. But in the end, he’s got cereal to sell and customers to please. He put out a message to make nice. Too bad he doesn’t realize what ‘cub’ means to a certain crowd…
I’m all for showing your stripes, feathers, etc. But let’s keep things gr-r-reat – & family-friendly if you could. Cubs could be watching 
More Chances to Wear Your Furriness Around
Fandom Fashions (“By Fans, For Fans”) have really upped their game recently. Their updated web site features many new designs for t-shirts and other handy clothing, with new designs covering many areas of fandom, pop culture, and yes, furry. Brought to you by none other than the artist known as Zhivago. (Whom, you may recall, was Guest of Honor at CaliFur 2015 — and whom you often see at many furry and comic book conventions.) Check it out.
image c. 2016 Fandom Fashions
FA 003 Non-Monogamous Furry Relationships 101 - A presentation of Viro the Science Collie's panel at ANE2016
Hello Everyone!
While this might seem like a review of previous episodes, this is a presentation of Viro the Science Collie's workshop at ANE2016 (and future cons) for those who are unable to attend. You can find the actual presentation under the "Presentations" page of our website.
For more information, including a list of topics by timestamp, see our Show Notes for this episode.
Thanks and, as always, be well!
FA 003 Non-Monogamous Furry Relationships 101 - A presentation of Viro the Science Collie's panel at ANE2016Smallballd 03 – Emails And Thank Yous - In this super bite sized Smallballd, Killick reads some old emails and thoroughly embarrasses himself. - Lindt v Haribo: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34334776 - Drone freeze ray: http://www.bbc.com/news/technolo
In this super bite sized Smallballd, Killick reads some old emails and thoroughly embarrasses himself.
Lindt v Haribo: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34334776
Drone freeze ray: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34475158
Smallballd 03 – Emails And Thank Yous - In this super bite sized Smallballd, Killick reads some old emails and thoroughly embarrasses himself. - Lindt v Haribo: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34334776 - Drone freeze ray: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34475158 -
22: Hugs: the Furry Handshake
Swords and Sausages by Jan – Book Review by Fred Patten.
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.
Swords and Sausages, by Jan
Hong Kong, Tiger Knight Comics, September 2015, trade paperback $30.00 (unpaged [128 pages]).
“Once upon a time, nestled somewhere amongst the rolling hills of Vale Valley, was a lively, albeit small, kingdom. And in this kingdom was …”
The main things that there “was” are Tor (a hunky tiger) and Silver (a svelte white vixen), two inept street thieves, would-be con artists, and even more would-be road warriors (robbers), plus the local sheriff (lion). Other supporting characters include the sheriff’s town guard (wolves), and varied town merchants (assorted anthropomorphized mammals, reptiles, and birds). The gryphons are unanthropomorphized and are treated as eagles.
This first collection relates the occasionally bawdy misadventures of Tor and Silver (she loses her clothing a lot, if funny-animal cartoon nudity bothers you) around Vale Valley proper and surrounding small towns. They regularly get thrown into the VV pokey, and are released or escape after a few days. It’s not that Tor and Silver are stupid, but they are less intelligent than anyone else. The stories feature typical funny-animal slightly exaggerated comedy-adventure. The social level here is about what you’d find at a Renaissance Faire or a Society for Creative Anachronisms event. This collection turns slightly more serious at the end as the tiger & vixen wander outside of Vale Valley and discover that the two neighboring kingdoms are at war.
This first collection of Jan’s Swords and Sorcery webcomic is in a “Sunday-page” format of two tiers per page in a large 12” x 9” size, in full color on thick, glossy paper. $30.00 may seem expensive, but when you see how large and impressive this collection is, you will feel it is worth it. It contains the first eight chapters of the strip, from June 1, 2011 to December 28, 2014, plus an original 8-page bonus chapter. Unlike the collection of College Catastrophe, Jan’s other webcomic, which is a black-&-white paperback that feels designed to fit into your pocket, this Swords and Sausages compendium is a large, lavish volume fit to be a full-sized coffee-table art book as much as a comic-strip collection. If you like a bright anthro pre-1600 A.D. world without the dirt and disease that real history was full of, get this book – or read Swords and Sausages online.
Jan’s College Catastrophe collection is actually printed in Hong Kong, where Jan lives. Swords and Sausages is produced by Jan’s printer in the U.S., Paw Pad Printing in Memphis, Tennessee (the printer of the Memphis FurMeet’s publications). Orders are shipped by Paw Pad through FedEx, resulting in faster delivery of American orders.
