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)

An African Grey is numeralogically smarter than most birds--and some people. He understands a variant on the abstract concept of "none", something very difficult to teach animals.

The teaching techniques used with the parrot may prove useful for instructing learning disabled children. The full story is available here from Science Daily.

Trickster

Further Confusion 2006
is proud to announce our second Guest of Honor, Jane Lindskold.

Jane is the author of
Through
Wolf's Eyes,
Wolf's
Head, Wolf's Heart,
and many other works of fantasy. Further Confusion is excited to
have this most wonderful author join us in January 2006.

More information about Jane can be found on her website at
http://www.janelindskold.com/

We would also like the announce that we are sponsoring a Film
Festival, which will showcast animated and live-action short films
with anthropomorphic themes submitted by both fans and film-makers. All
films shown will be judged by a select panel for a 1st place cash
prize.

For further inquiries, or to submit a film, please contact
filmfest@furtherconfusion.org

CREATURA, a novel featuring anthropomorphic characters, was published in June by mainstream ebook Publisher Hard Shell Word Factory. Paul Lucas has been active in the fandom for a number of years as an artist.

A science fiction novel, Creatura takes place three hundred years after the human race is killed by a Global Pandemic, the only survivors the races of the half-human half-animal Creatura. But as they attempt to rebuild their shattered world, a deadly secret is uncovered...

For more information, just follow the link below.

http://store.fictionwise.com/servlet/mw?t=book&bi=31673&si=42

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

• Morphicon Presents: Furry Writers of Ohio Meeting
• Post Pride Parade Report (and Pictures)
• Morphicon 2006 Staff Announced
• On the Horizon

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Scientists in Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research have apparently reanimated dead dogs several hours after removing all of their blood and replacing it with a cold saline solution. (No, this isn't a hoax story.) The purpose of the research is to develop a better way to cryogenically freeze people.

The Pittsburgh group plans research to begin on humans within a year. Yes, you guessed it--just in time for Anthrocon 2007.

Trickster

Anthro is a new webzine whose first issue will be available for your reading pleasure on 1 September 2005. The force behind Anthro is the Webmaster and Editor In Chief of the Ursa Major-nominated webzine TSAT (main or mirror sites) -- Quentin 'Cubist' Long, who has decided to try his hand at a purely fur-focused venture. And you can help!

Paul Winchell, Orginal Voice of Tigger, Dies at 82

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paul Winchell, a ventriloquist, inventor and children's TV show host best known for creating the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh's animated friend Tigger, has died. He was 82.

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