Hear ye, hear ye, one and all! From the tallest eyrie to the deepest
lair, let the call sound: creatures of fur, feather and scale abound,
and soon all creatures shall gather 'round to revel in the honored
tradition reaching all the way back to ancient times (well, the late
'90s) -- our humble convention, the one and only FURTHER CONFUSION!

1. Convention Dates
2. Our Theme for 2006
3. Our First Guest of Honor
4. 2006 Charity Auction
5. Picnic & Campout Information
6. Staff Needed
7. Writing Workshop
8. Conbook Submissions Needed
9. Membership Badge Art Needed
10. Furry Marketplace
11. Art Show Announcements
12. Hotel FAQ for Booking Rooms
13. Furry Night Live! returns
14. Next Public Meeting

FANG, the "little black book of furry fiction", is an ambitious new project that aims to make quality furry fiction available in comfortable paperback format, slated for an August release to coincide with Camp Feral.
As much an attempt to galvanize the amateur furry fiction community into striving for a higher standard in their work as to provide furs with an anthology of some of the best work currently available, FANG takes a rather unique stance toward material that's been previously available on-line. Not only does FANG not have a policy against previously published material, readers are encouraged to mail their favourite authors, to urge them to submit their work to FANG.

A newborn kitten recently entered the world with two faces and, hopefully, at least nine lives. Gemini was born Sunday with two mouths, two tongues, two noses and four eyes.

"I kind of feel sorry for her, because I can't know for a fact if she's going to live or die," its owner, Lee Bluetear of Glide, told the (Roseburg) News-Review. "If she makes it, she should be a perfectly normal and healthy cat. Other than having two faces."

Warner Bros. has acquired film rights to Kathryn Lasky's children's fantasy series Guardians of Ga'Hoole and set it up as a CG-animated film with Donald De Line producing, reports Variety.

The six-book series revolves around a parallel universe featuring a cast of owls and magic transformations. The first book begins with a young barn owl being pushed out of his family's nest by his older brother and then being rescued by agents from a mysterious school for orphaned owls.

Lasky will write the screenplay and executive produce. Visit the books' official website for more information.

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What may be the first compilation of furry-related sketch comedy will debut at Anthrocon 2005.

The DVD compilation is called “And you KNOW this” by Brian Reider (aka Kutztown Dragon). Filled with twelve short films, the DVD features appearances by Anthrocon Chairman Dr. Sam Conway and comedian, 2 The Ranting Gryphon.

Morphicon 2006 Convention Preview Newsletter!

Morphicon 2006: "The Food Chain"
May 5-7 at the Radisson Columbus-Worthington

In this report:

Webpage Update!
Theme, Guests of Honor Announced
Changes for Morphicon 2006
Morphicon in the Columbus Pride Parade
What's Next?

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"The Wolf Totem", based on the novel of the same tag by Jiang Rong, is a project that New Zealand's WETA company and Beijing's Forbidden City Film Co. are circling to jointly-produce reports Monkey Peaches.

"Totem" tells the yarn of a pack of wolves struggling to survive the Mongolian Prairie. Both CGI and real wolves will be used for the flickeroo. The $48 million dollar project will take no less than three years to complete.

Source: Dark Horizons

Ted Blasingame, creator of Blue Horizon, is looking for an official logo or emblem to be associated with his 7-year anthropomorphic story project.

A contest is running for interested artists to the end of August for submissions, with a complete set (six) autographed books to be awarded as the prize for the winning entry.

Click HERE for more details of the contest rules.

I thought it was a typo when my coworker informed me she had seen an advert claiming former Beatles member Paul McCartney had written something with "Furry" in the title. It seems as though it should say "Urban Fairy Tale," a common enough phrase.

Semantic quibbles regarding the differences and/or overlappings of furries vs fairies aside, it is indeed furry, and "is about two squirrels and a frog, who embark on a mission to set free some animals" (per Bookinformation.co.uk).

More info at the above URL, Billboard.com, or just Google the title.

MainFrame: Beginnings by Simba Wiltz, was published in 2001, bringing an astounding new anthropomorphic world. The anticipated sequel, subtitled "A Matter of Transfer", picks up where the last book left off. The MainFrame team is still fighting their battles, but as they continue to make small strides, a new player steps into the light. It seems their adversaries have some pretty powerful beings on their side, including one who shakes their indomitable leader Mane, to his very core. As questions of identity rise and fall, the very thing that drew the team together threatens to tear them apart.

To celebrate the planned publication of the next book in the MainFrame series, Wiltzworks.com is holding an art contest, sponsored by SmallInfinity.com. The contest boasts prizes of $50 for third place, $100 for second place, and $200 for first place. Runners up will receive Mountain T-shirts from SmallInfinity.com. Details can be found at http://www.wiltzworks.com/contest.htm.

The Official Site of MainFrame is http://www.wiltzworks.com/mainframe/.

Nominations for the 2004 Ursa Major Awards for the Best Anthropomorphic Literature and Art of that year have been tabulated, and the final ballot has been prepared. Voting closes June 10, and the Awards will be presented at Anthrocon 2005 in Philadelphia in July.

Voting is open to everyone, and you are encouraged to ask your friends to vote also. Visit the Ursa Major Awards web site at http://www.ursamajorawards.org/Voting.htm for full details on the voting procedure.

Please help support the Ursa Majors. They are a people's choice award, so it requires as many participants as possible to make them a success.

Desert Explorer and Founder of the WILD CAMEL PROTECTION FOUNDATION, John Hare, Travels to North America to Share the Miraculous Story of the Bactrian Camel's Ability to Survive 43 Atmospheric Nuclear Tests

Real Life Explorer has traveled the deserts of the world, his only concession to modern technology being a satellite telephone

Thurl Ravenscroft of Fullerton, Calif., whose voice
was known worldwide through his work in movies, TV and at Disneyland, died Sunday from prostate cancer. He was 91.

Tony the Tiger?

That was Ravenscroft.

Remember Chicago's "Cows on Parade" statues? Well, Zurich decided to follow suit, but use bears. Only this particular one, painted up in bondage gear, was deemed to be unsuitable for the place it was going, right next to some of Switzerland's most prominent banks. Full story on Yahoo! News

NEW! See links to convention photos at:
http://www.morphicon.org/

In this report:

* Official Numbers
* Special Thanks
* Morphicon Feedback
* What's Next

(read on for more...)

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