In an hour long interview, the Nostalgia Critic celebrates the Animaniacs, with guests Tom and Nate Ruegger, Sherrie Stoner, John P. McCann, and Paul Rugg.

The Nostalgia Critic covers a fair amount of ground with the crew, including the abundance of freedom granted to the writers, sneaking jokes by the censors, the music, the differences between animating studios, creative influences, and Cartoon Stars' addictions. Unsurprisingly, there is also a lot of ribbing and joking around to be had.

Animaniacs ran to 99 episodes from 1993 to 1998, and one movie, Wakko's Wish, in 1999. The series also produced a spin-off: Pinky and the Brain.

Spanish furry portal Red Furros has an exclusive interview with Peggy Wang, keyboard player and vocalist for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart:

I first discovered furries on an MTV show called "True Life: I'm a Furry." I became really fascinated with them. I'm sure there are varied motives behind the lifestyle, but I guess for me, being a shy and self-conscious person, I can definitely see the attraction in expressing yourself through a character. Also, I like cute stuff. Ha ha.

Peggy's band was recently covered thanks to their music video, Higher Than the Stars.

SEMO's Capaha Arrow interviews two local furs: Island (owner of Balubeere) and Lupercus.

Balubeere was spotted by student reporters while debating Brother Jed, a local preacher who comes to the university to – in Island's words – "tell everyone they're going to hell."

Watch: Blaubeere invades the cafeteria, argues with his owner and sings for his creator.

Issue 28 of Anthro is online for your reading pleasure. This issue is dedicated to the memory of Michael W. Bard, a regular contributor who served, at various times, as the 'zine's co-editor; columnist; and occasional reviewer. The cover image, Silvermane Maintenance by Cuprohastes, incorporates two of Bard's favorite motifs -- science fiction, and anthropomorphic equines -- and the issue's editorial is devoted to Bard.

The rest of this issue's contents include stories by Billymorph, Corvus & ShadowWolf, Phil Geusz, Bill ‘Hafoc’ Rogers, and Carmen Welsh; the third installment of Michael Bergey's novel New Coyote; an interview with WikiFur's Laurence ‘GreenReaper’ Parry; and a variety of other high-quality anthropomorphic material.

The LondonFurs are on display again, this time thanks to a video interview by Babelgum. [diegowolffox and balto_mike/furrymedia]

Passion can take you a long way, as Québec-based entomologist Georges Brossard explains in a BBC interview:

I'm the bug man – a real bug man. I love bugs. I sleep with them, I dream about them. I eat them. I love bugs.

The Montréal Insectarium – founded in 1990 by a 250,000-insect donation from Brossard – attracts over 350,000 visitors each year, and offers annual insect tastings.

French-speaking Canadian furs got their turn in the limelight earlier this year with an interview (translation) of Paws, Firebreath, Big Bad Bear and Feli in the Montreal Campus newspaper, which serves the Université du Québec à Montréal.

The article led to a sixteen-minute radio interview of Beekin, Firebreath and Ailé the Dragon, broadcast on CBC's French-language radio network Première Chaîne on 16 February (scroll to "Audio-vidéo"; starts at 0:50). [dronon/furrymedia]

Update: A transcription of the radio broadcast is now available thanks to Firebreath.

The Moskovskij Komsomolets has a two-page article [translation, photo] about furry fandom.

The article spends a lot of time on fursuiting, but also covers the history of the fandom, its base in art and animation, and the controversy of its sexual and spiritual aspects.

So far, reader comments [translation] are mixed; some call it "one of the few articles on [Russian furry fandom] that deserve attention" and feel the story was "positive and truthful," while others see it as "reminiscent of an attempt to present a summary of War and Peace."

Dr. Kathy Gerbasi

Dr. Kathy Gerbasi has given an interview on her research to the Buffalo News. [credit: Higgs Raccoon/furrymedia]

Dr. Gerbasi was the lead author of Furries From A to Z, published in Society & Animals in 2008.

See also: Preliminary results from the Anthrocon 2009 survey

Clawcast is at it again with an interview to hold you over until the infamously anticipated "What is Furry?" episode to be released next week.

Episode Summary:

Join Clawcast in the second episode, an extensive interview with artists Midori and Daria McGrain from the pay site Club Stripes. Includes a discussion of what kind of work goes into a pay site, a brief history of the site's creation, opinions on online art piracy, and advice for those interested in starting their own pay sites.

Links:
www.clubstripes.com

Those who attended ConFurences in the 1990s might remember the NitroCoon radio show presentations - an anthro sci-fi tale. The fur behind NitroCoon was Avi Melman. For years Avi hoped to bring NitroCoon to cartoons and was pitching it around Hollywood.

Now Avi has his own animation studio! In this interview Avi talks about his first animated series which features werewolves.

From Joe Strike on alt.fan.furry: "Seibert is the guy who ran Hanna-Barbera for Turner & came up with the What A Cartoon project. He also gave the go-ahead to 2 furry shows, 2 Stupid Dogs (which I really liked) & Swat Kats that did an el floppo once on the air.

His company is now producing Chalk Zone & Fairly Oddparents for Nickelodeon. I'm really lucky the Animation World News website sent me to talk to him, because it was drop-dead fascinating to talk to someone this influential in the animation biz. Anyway, if you've got some time to kill & want to give it a read (this is only the *first part* of the interview, by the way), it's at:http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=pageone&article_no=1800"