Greetings Furries!

Oklacon Registration is finally open! Yay!

Oklacon is in it's third year at Roman nose state park in Watonga, Oklahoma during halloween weekend.

The convention itself is the least expensive convention to attend with pre-registration beginning at $26 which includes a bunk in an "A-frame" in which you can sleep and some meals provided for during the convention.

If you haven't nosed around the toy section at your local Target, you may want to! Mattel has put out a line of rather detailed, roughtly 3-inch-high poseable plush figures entitled (I kid you not) "Furryville." While not yet up on the Target website, they were apparently featured in this year's Toyfair.

This in and of itself is no big deal, as there have been anthropomorphic figures aimed at children for a long time (Calico Critters & the Sylvanian series); but this series in particular has a broad range of species...

Quentin 'Cubist' Long would like to take this opportunity to let furdom-at-large know that Anthro needs art!

Check out the still-under-construction Anthro prototype site for further details, including some rough-draft-type ideas for what sort of art Anthro is looking for.

alt.fan.furry postings:

From: "Doodles"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:16:51 -0700

Back to school, back to comics.

Midwest FurFest is happy to announce that online registration is now open!

Memberships are $30 until September 30, 2005, and $40 thereafter and at the door.

Sponsorships are only $100. And what do you get with your sponsorship? You get a free T-shirt, a print from our Guests of Honor, a limited-edition commemorative pin, a delicious brunch with our Guests of Honor, and a special surprise gift!

To register, simply point your browser to http://www.furfest.org/regindex.html and follow the link.

For more information about Midwest FurFest, visit our website at http://www.furfest.org

Greyson Darkewolf needs your help. He's in critical condition and is in dire need of a heart transplant. The details are available at His livejournal.

There is a desperate need for donations of both money and blood (Roll up those sleeves people.) Prayers are gladly accepted. At present he barely has a week without a miracle.

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

In this report:

• Morphicon Free Fall Picnic Announced (8/27)!
• Ohio Furry Writers Meeting Report
• Help Morphicon Select a Charity for 2006
• On the Horizon

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SOUTHERN TAILS
The official newsletter of Furry Weekend Atlanta (February 17-19, 2006)
August 2005

In this issue...
1. Welcome Back
2. Meet Our Guests Of Honor: Bill Holbrook
3. Pre-register
4. Hotel Update
5. Submit
6. Volunteers
7. More Information

Tales of the Tai-Pan Universe issue #39 is now available!

Issue #39 features front cover by Sky Rigdon, back cover by Chuck Melville, stories by Kristin Fontaine and Mark Allen Davis with story illustrations by C.D. Woodbury and Chuck Melville. Plus additional artwork by Kathy R. Coleman, Gary Fletcher, and Sheryl Schopfer.

You can get a peek at the cover at our web site, just go to www.taipanproject.org and click on "Available Issues."

Hearken to the call, one and all! Be ye scaled or furred, earth-treader
or bird, sound the call and spread the word: Further Confusion shall
soon come to be; join us for five days of fine revelry. An artist has
been named as our first honored guest; and now with a fair scribe we've
been blessed. And even long before our gathering shall begin, we shall
hold camp -- and a feast!

1.  Picnic & Campout Information
2.  Our Second Guest of Honor
3.  Staff Needed
4.  Pre-Registering for FC
5.  Furry Night Live! returns
6.  Furry Marketplace
7.  FC Film Festival
8.  Conbook Submissions Needed
9.  Membership Badge Art Needed
10. Hotel FAQ for Booking Rooms
11. Further Confusion Masquerade
12. Next Public Meeting

"The Trail of the Great Rose," by Fara Shimbo, a story about three different intelligent species and their quest to find two others, is currently being posted on her live journal. Shimbo is the author of the Klysadel stories, including The Perfect Crime. New chapters are typically posted on Sundays and Wednesdays. The first 20 chapters are available in PDF format, but the pictures are better on LJ.

The listing of the Ursa Major Awards for this year as posted to Flayrah was taken from an inacurate one I goofed and posted to rmf. The winner of the Comic Strip award this year was:

Faux Pas by Robert & Margaret Carspecken. (Internet, thrice-weekly, 2004 strips from January 1 to December 31 [#534])

See the official Ursa Major Awards site at for the full listing.

--Kay Shapero
for the Anthropomorphic Literature and Arts Association

Midwest FurFest
November 18-20, 2005
Schaumburg, Illinois

The official newsletter of Midwest FurFest
July, 2005 edition

It was a dark and stormy night when suddenly, a wolf howled! Why did he howl? He was trying to get to the bottom of the mystery of course! The mystery of how so many people have such a great time in Chicago every November at Midwest FurFest! Is it our great hotel? Is it our terrific programming? Maybe it's our bountiful con suite Or maybe it's a little bit of all of those, plus all of our great friends who join us every year! Read on to find out more about Midwest FurFest and our theme this year: WHODUNNIT? IT'S A MYSTERY!

S-f & graphic novel publisher Byron Preiss was killed in a traffic accident on July 9th. Several obituaries hae been posted, one of the longest and most detailed by comics artist Jim Steranko.

Aside from whatever else he published and wrote since the 1970s, Preiss was the first major (or semi-major) publisher to show serious interest in anthropomorphic s-f. Preiss' company iBooks had published the American edition of the French award-winning “Blacksad” anthropomorphic graphic novels, and has just begun reprinting Alan Dean Foster's out-of-print “Spellsinger” novels. iBooks has been negotiating with Sofawolf Press to publish a mass-market paperback edition of its 2003 short story anthology "Best in Show: Fifteen Years of Outstanding Furry Fiction", edited by Fred Patten, retitled "Furry!: The Best Anthropomorphic Stories Ever!", early in 2006. But with Preiss dead, what will happen to iBooks and its plans for further anihropomorphic books?

BEST ANTHROPOMORPHIC MOTION PICTURE
"Shrek 2" - Dreamworks

BEST ANTHROPOMORPHIC DRAMATIC SERIES
"Father of the Pride" - Dreamworks & Imagi International Holdings for NBC

BEST ANTHROPOMORPHIC NOVEL
"Never Again A Man" - Charles Matthias

BEST ANTHROPOMORPHIC SHORT FICTION
"Felicia and the Tailcutter's Curse" - Charles P. A. Melville

BEST ANTHROPOMORPHIC OTHER LITERARY WORK
"The Art of Usago Yojimbo" - Stan Sakai

BEST ANTHROPOMORPHIC COMIC BOOK
"Usagi Yojimbo" - Stan Sakai

BEST ANTHROPOMORPHIC COMIC STRIP
"Kevin & Kell" - Bill Holbrook

BEST ANTHROPOMORPHIC FANZINE
"Tales of the Tai-Pan Universe"

BEST ANTHROPOMORPHIC PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATION
Cover Painting for "Fur Plus #22" - Kacey Maltzman

BEST ANTHROPOMORPHIC GAME
"Sly 2 : Band of Thieves" - Sucker Punch Productions

(2004 Ursa Major Awards)