Portal:Furry
Template:/box-header Furry fandom is a fandom devoted to anthropomorphic animal characters. Since the 1980s, the term furries has come to refer to such characters. Members of the furry subculture are known as furry fans, furries, or simply furs.
Fictional work celebrated by furry fandom typically attributes high-level intelligence, human facial expressions and anatomy, speech, bipedalism, and clothing to otherwise animal characters. Work in any medium that includes such characters may be considered part of the furry genre, although they are most often seen in comics, cartoons, animated films, allegorical novels, and video games.
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A furry convention (also furry con or fur con) is a formal gathering of members of the furry fandom. These conventions provide a place for fans to meet, exchange ideas, transact business and engage in entertainment and recreation centered around this concept. Originating in California, USA during the mid-1980s, there are now over 35 annual furry conventions worldwide, mostly in North America and Europe.
Furry conventions offer a range of volunteer-led programming, usually focusing on anthropomorphic art, crafts, music and literature. Some raise money for charity. Attendees often dress up and wear artistic name badges for identification, though the majority do not bring fursuits. They may also spend money on the work of amateur and professional artists, both directly and at auction.
Furry conventions are often closed to public media, due to television and magazine coverage which implied the events were sexually oriented. As of 2007, some permit the local news media to attend, usually under close supervision.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. Frederick Walter Patten (born December 11, 1940) is known for his work as a historian in the anime, manga, and furry fandoms, where he has made contributions to both print and online books, magazines, and other media. He has received honors from several fandom organizations, including the LASFS Evans-Freehafer Award, Westercon's Sampo Award, Inkpot Award, Ursa Major Award and the Worldcon Life Achievement Award.
Patten learned to read with comic strips in the Los Angeles Times and Examiner. At age 9 he began to collect books from Ace Books, Ballantine Books, and other science fiction publishers of the time, as well as magazines such as Astounding, F&SF, and Galaxy Science Fiction.
Patten entered the University of California at Los Angeles in 1958, and its graduate School of Library Science in 1962. He became active in science fiction fandom on discovering the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society in 1960, starting to publish his own stories and write for sci-fi fanzines. He received a Master's degree in Library Science in 1963 - his thesis was on the books of Andre Norton - and worked as a technical catalogue librarian from 1969 to 1990.
In 1972, Patten partnered with Richard Kyle to create the Graphic Story Bookshop in Long Beach, California. He discovered manga at Westercon in 1970, and began to import it from Japanese publishers through the bookshop. He was a founder of the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization in 1977. Over the years he contributed to several books on animation history, and wrote dozens of articles for publications such as Albedo Anthropomorphics, Furrlough, and the Comics Buyer's Guide.
From 1991 to 2002 Patten was employed at anime production company Streamline Pictures, where he acted as writer, translator or publicist for over twenty animation films. He subsequently wrote Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews, and edited Best in Show: Fifteen Years of Outstanding Furry Fiction.
In March 2005, Patten suffered a stroke which left his right arm and leg paralyzed. No longer able to keep his collection, he donated almost 900 boxes of comic books, records, tapes, paperbacks, fanzines, anime, manga, convention programs and T-shirts to the Eaton Collection.
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. Ozy and Millie is a webcomic created by D. C. Simpson which debuted in January 1997.[1] The comic was part of Keenspot from 2001 to 2003, going independent for several years, before returning to Keenspot in November 2006. It follows the adventures of assorted anthropomorphized animals. New strips are released on most weekdays. The comic centers on Ozy and Millie, two young foxes attending North Harbordale Elementary School in Seattle, contending with everyday elementary school issues such as tests and bullies, as well as more surreal situations. On April 24, 2008, D.C. Simpson announced the end of the daily strip by the end of 2008 on the O&M home page.
The strip usually concentrates on character interaction, but occasionally veers into political commentary. Simpson airs his political views more directly in his other comic, I Drew This. Most of the strips have been reprinted in book form. Five collections were released through Plan 9 Publishing, but they have all gone out of print; currently a complete set of the strip's archives is available through Lulu.com. Its animal characters focus on grade-school matters. The strip is listed in the top 200 most read webcomic on The Webcomic List.
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Some furry artwork is three-dimensional, like these sculptures sold at Further Confusion 2007.
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Held in the forests of Ontario since 1998, this camping trip does not follow the standard convention programming, instead focusing on watersports, campfire tales, climbing, songwriting and other craft activities. 132 furry fans attended in September 2006, but this number fell to around 80 in 2007 when the event was extended to a week.
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