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Coming soon to Space Channel on July 13: Fanboy Confessional, a documentary mini-series from Markham Street Films. Judging by the trailer, some episodes will be looking at fans of furry, cosplay, zombies, and cyberpunk.
An Australian furry convention called MiDFur has attracted a decent amount of news coverage at their recent event, including TV and radio appearances as well as a number of print and online articles, some of which featured their guest of honour, Stan Sakai.
Although there is no official count, there were several attendees who reported having found about furry and the convention via the above media coverage.
The Moskovskij Komsomolets has a two-page article 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 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
French-speaking Canadian furs got their turn in the limelight earlier this year with an interview 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.
A transcription of the radio broadcast is now available thanks to Firebreath.
The extremely popular BoingBoing blog has mentioned furry fandom numerous times - usually doing the typical jokes, but perpetuating the negative stereotypes nonetheless. Recently they've started to do special Feature Articles, and Lisa Katayama has written a pretty good one, "Fur Fun: The inner lives of furries", an interview with fan and fursuiter Josh Strom.
"Lovejoy started Weasel Wordsmith as a resource for the fandom to get info on media that might interest them specifically. While the site is not entirely furry centric, there is an emphasis on things starring anthropomorphic animals."
The following is a Live Journal post by Dr. Samuel Conway (Uncle Kage) referring to a solicitation by Liisa of Markham Street Films .inc in Toronto Canada for a documentary on the furry fandom.
It contains Dr. Conway’s opinion on the matter along with the original post from the AnthroCon boards and the email from Brooke of “The Tyra Banks Show†for a comparison.
It also mentions a few other shows that Markham Street Films .inc has made the were not mentioned by the original post by Liisa.
• A social news website for the furry fandom • 2007-2011
