From: dmitchell@cix.compulink.co.uk (Daniel Mitchell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.furry
Subject: Furvey response
Date: 31 Mar 92 19:10:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: cix.memo.360690
Reply-To: dmitchell@cix.compulink.co.uk

hokay, time to answer this one..

>1.  What is your favorite currently-running professional comic
series?
 At the moment; Albedo, Hepcats, Rhudiprrt (not necessarily in that
order, depending on the particular issue).

>2.  What is your favorite professional comic series OF ALL TIME?
 Albedo, definitely - space opera done to perfection (and it's furry,
too - heaven!), and backups as good as if not better than the main
story in a lot of things.., Xanadu - great writing if the art does
get
a tad cramped at times, and Fusion (so I like space opera.. besides,
yay Tan!)

>3.  What is your favorite SINGLE issue of a professional comic?
 Well, Furkindred's definitely there, if for sheer size and quality
alone, Crisis 51 (the pink raccoon story - lovely) (and assume
whatever you like about me from that..), and Hepcats 1 for the extra
detail there that makes it superb rather than merely good.

>4.  Who is your favorite graphic artist?
 In (vaguely) this order; Monika Livingstone, Steve Gallacci, Tom
Verre, Ken Macklin, Jimmy Chin, Dave Sim (weeell..)

>5.  Who is your favorite writer?
 No real order here; Peter Glaskowsky, Watts Martin, Steve Gallacci. 

>6.  What is your favorite fanzine or small-press publication?
 Again, no real order; almost be default, Yarf! and ECP - the third's
harder, as there's only so many I've seen. Whatthehell - I yield to
temptation and say Stomping Scene (yes, it is (tenuously) furry..)

>7.  What is your favorite character?
 Kine (Marshworld (Kine in US)); Tan (Fusion) (yay!); Mudge
(Spellsinger).
 Honourable mention to Phil (Leopard Street) <ducks>
 
>8.  What is your favorite animated furry character?
 Tiny Toons (character? well, you didn't specify an individual one in
the examples..), Rescue Rangers, Animalympics. 

>9.  What are you looking forward to the most in the future?
 Anything and everything furry that reaches the UK (okay, not
everything; 'Jam Quacker, hiphop Duck' is excluded from the above).
If we didn't have such astonishingly humourless customs officers,
then this'd be a lot more open - as it is, the chances of any more
Omahas (16's still not here..), LFiH, and so forth getting past them
seems minimal. 

>10.  Anything else you'd like to say?
 The point about furries being net.connected - I've noticed that, but
is it just restricted to furriness? There aren't that many other
'subcultures' (to use a not particularly appropriate word) that I can
think of in comic fandom; in fact, the only one that really springs
to mind is manga; and that's based around a country as much as a
particular facet of the comics (okay, okay, so it's generalising
horrendously, but you get the idea).
 Is it just that furries tend to be net.connected, or
net.connectedness tends to make people more likely to be furry? (the
latter seems more realistic, I guess, as furriness is something
that's difficult to find out about without being able to get to a lot
of people as with the net - going only on geographical contacts, it's
much less likely to happen.) 
 (well, that's not strictly true, but here in the UK, for instance,
there's few enough of us that being net.connected helps a lot to find
others..)

  
 Oh yes - any more furries in the UK, *please* get in contact..