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Finding Furry Stuff

The vast bulk of furry material is available from other furry fans -- self-published fanzines and artists' portfolios, or stories and pictures archived at FTP and Web sites.

  • Lynx's Incomplete Listing of Zoomorphic Publications has details about fan-produced publications.

  • Cap'n Packrat keeps track of independently published comics:

    You can also get many comics and zines by mail order:

    Happy Jackal Graphics
    1200 Patricia #1208, San Antonio, TX 78213
    A mail-order dealer for many years (send a double-stamped large envelope for a printed catalog), now you can browse their online catalog of furry comics, zines, portfolios, and apparel, and mail in an order.

    The Rabbit Valley Comic Shop (formerly known as Mailbox Books)
    P.O. Box 540568, Waltham MA 02454-0568
    The premiere furry mail-order distributor. You can browse their catalog of current furry comics, portfolios, and merchandise, and order online by credit card, or send for a printed catalog.
    Historical Note: This company did business for years as Mailbox Books. The original Mailbox Books was founded by Ed Zolna, who retired in 1998 and sold the company's assets to Sean Rabbitt (who acquired the name Mailbox Books) and Matt Henry (who started "Bronzebear Media Distribution" to sell Ed Zolna's backstock). In spring 2001, Mr. Henry decided to return to college to pursue a master's degree, and began liquidating the business; at Anthrocon 2001, Mailbox Books acquired Bronzebear's remaining inventory.
    In September 2001, a company called Education Center, Inc. filed suit alleging trademark infringement: it had begun using "The Mailbox Book Company" in its marketing of classroom materials to teachers, even though Mr. Zolna's and Mr. Rabbitt's use of "Mailbox Books" predates it. Rather than face a lengthy and expensive legal battle, Mr. Rabbitt decided to change the name of the company and get on with business.
    AlleyCat Books
    Founded in 1999, another source for comics, zines, portfolios and collectibles. Browse their online catalog and mail in an order.

    Second Ed
    As the old saying goes, "You can't keep a good man... gathering no moss" or something like that. Ed Zolna came out of retirement in 2003 selling comics, folios and CDs by top furry artists and publishers from around the world, via a free Genuine Paper Catalog with monthly updates.

Commercially Available

The Recommended Furry Reading List is for fans who want to know what anthropomorphic movies, TV series, novels, etc. are worth looking for, and lists the items eligible for nomination for the annual Ursa Major Awards.

Furry Art Info

Furries Online

Artwork

  • Avatar has been the repository for furry artwork online for many years, and recently relocated to a new site, with a faster server and better bandwidth. [FurNation]
  • FurNation bills itself as "an inclusive, uncensored, and non-profit Internet forum/showcase" for anthropomorphic material, such as artwork, stories, animation, costumes, music and poetry.
  • Yerf permits only images of a "PG" or less rating, and has indexes sorted by artist, date and title. Or did, until the server's hard drive crashed in December, 2004. (Previously known as The Squeeky Clean Furry Archive.)
  • The Velan Central Library (aka the Vixen Controlled Library) archives images by artist, making it easy to find someone's work whose style you like -- although, the directory is by artists' first names (or nicknames).
  • The Orlando Furry Archives hosts sites for several dozen artists, with a directory also sorted by artists' first names.
  • Yiffco provided convenient Web-based indexes of various image archives, but shut down in 1998, in case you'd heard about it and were wondering. Someone else has taken over the domain name for a private site, unrelated to the original owners.

Stories

Network Games

  • Rhal's Furry MU*s Page describes the Internet roleplaying games where you can play a furry character:
  • Furcadia is a graphical online game for Wintel computers.
  • Avalia was a graphical online game under development for Macintosh users, but seems no longer available.

The Web, Other Newsgroups, Mailing Lists

  • List of FurRing Sites - hundreds of Web pages dedicated to furries! (See bottom of this page.)

  • Foxen has compiled a link page of on-line comic strips, for your Web browsing pleasure.
    [Furry Search]
  • The Furry Search Engine lets you search the contents of many furry-oriented Web sites.
  • Introduction to the FurryNet (fur.*) Newsgroups explains a private hierarchy of news servers on the Internet which carry a dozen or so newsgroups on various furry topics, founded in late 1996.
  • Yerf Forums are frequented by artists and those interested in furry art.
  • The Furry Forum is a mailing list for the discussion of the latest furry doings. Topics can range from information on where one can find a good fursuit to reviews of furry themed literature and artwork. Although unmoderated, flaming is not allowed and the listadmin will remove offenders. To subscribe, send e-mail to [email protected] (subject and content of body doesn't matter).
  • FurNet was a furry-themed amateur computer bulletin board system network using the FidoNet protocol, which was founded in the 1980s and disbanded by early 2000. Prior to the rise of the Internet, this was the main way furries communicated online.

Lifestyle Info

  • alt.lifestyle.furry is a newsgroup for people who incorporate furriness into their lives more intensely, but the newsgroup tends to undergo turmoil from time to time. Its original FAQ is archived here for historical reference at the request of the author, and is no longer being posted to the newsgroup.
  • Locandez's Furvey is a questionnaire posted twice-monthly to alt.lifestyle.furry, to help its participants explore their furry thoughts and feelings.

Fandom Info

Conventions and Other Gatherings

Historical Note: ConFurence (or, the International Anthropomorphic (Furry) Convention/Exposition, for short) was the premiere furry convention, founded in 1989 and running annually until 2003. CF0-10 were organized by The ConFurence Association. From 2000-2003, The ConFurence Group produced the conventions.

Media Coverage

The growth of furry fandom has attracted media attention. Here's an article from the Tri-Valley Herald in the San Francisco Bay area: http://www.xydexx.com/anthrofurry/trivalley.htm , another from Jim Hill Media: http://www.jimhillmedia.com/articles/guest/colton.02032003.1.htm , and from the Philadelphia-area paper Wayne Suburban: http://www.xydexx.com/anthrofurry/furries.htm .

Pressed Fur is a site that collects media mentions about furries and furry fandom, as well as essays, critiques, and views of how others see the fandom, but it hasn't been updated since 2002.

For a good, impartial overview of furries and furry fandom, check out the Wikipedia entries on furries and furry fandom.

The Lion King

One of the best furry films of recent memory, so since I'm a big lion fan, it gets its own section. And in fact, if you also go to the Furry Search site, you'll find a lot more Lion King links!

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