Bibliography

My most useful sources so far! (In no particular order)

1. Fredrik Knudsen. "Furries | Down The Rabbit Hole." YouTube, 8/13/2018 - This 2018 video essay by Fredrik Knudsen is an elegant deep-dive into the details of furry fandom history for beginners. It does not zero in on one specific topic, but touches just enough on everything to be informative while remaining cohesive. The type of video you might want to be taking notes on; there's a lot of information packed into those 44 minutes.
2. Ash Coyote. "The Fandom: A Furry Documentary." YouTube, 7/3/2020 - A documentary about the history of the fandom and how we got where we are today. It features dozens of interview snippets, from amateur fursuit makers to fandom grandfathers to everyone in-between. Not quite as much raw information here, but it captures a general "vibe" beautifully, and has a lot of love put into it.
3. Dragon Ink Comics. "An Interview with Albedo Anthropomorphics Comic Creator Steve Gallacci - Erma Felna - Usagi Yojimbo." YouTube, 7/9/2022 - I cannot believe that this only has half a thousand views, for all of the sheer informative value that it has. This video is a forty-minute-long interview with the creator of Albedo Anthropomorphics, and it is full to the brim with interesting tidbits and details about Gallacci's life and artistic process.
4. Dogpatch Press - An independent furry news website that updates regularly and has a wide variety of topics to explore. Many of its articles skew towards opinion pieces, but it's still full of solid information and research; a great place to find interviews with big names in the fandom. Updates weekly!
5. flayrah - This website's subtitle, "Furry Food for Thought," sums it up well. It is basically a hotspot for all things furry; media reviews, news articles, research and information on historical events, podcasts, simply a place to talk and meet other furries, and more.
6. Furscience - This website is run by the International Anthropomorphic Research Project (IARP), a group of furry scientists, and contains all of their research, free to access. Essentially, they are furries that study furries, analyzing things such as fandom demographics, the public's perception of furries, and why the hobby has grown so large in the first place.
7. Grand Comics Database - This website is useful when researching the publications of the "Funny Animal Fandom" days; its database includes entries on such things as Fritz the Cat and Funny Aminals. Descriptions are usually not extensive, if present at all, but for referencing dates, authors, and publishers, it is a good tool.
8. Recalled Comics - Very similar to the GCD, except, well, what it says on the tin; this site is more likely to have the more obscure stuff. It also generally includes a bit more written information in its database entries.
9. yerfology - yerf has written multiple essays and articles analyzing terminology, behavior, and trends in the fandom; you can find them all here. Their website also includes a list of every time that the furry fandom has been mentioned in academia.
10. Yerf - Not to be confused with the writer, the Yerf Historical Archive is an image hosting site preserving the many artworks that were once uploaded on the original Yerf site, also known at one point as the Squeeky Clean Art Archive, before several software crashes caused the site to go down permanently. The Yerf Archive is useful for finding the work of well-known furries that had a hand in pre-2000s fandom business.
11. Fang, Feather, and Fin - An independent research project (much like this one!) run by three furries. A really, really, really great resource! They do a lot of in-depth interviews with long-time members of the fandom and cover all kinds of topics relating to furry history, updating monthly.
12. WikiFur - The Wikipedia of the furry fandom. Fairly self-explanatory. Not always reliable, of course, but it has an article for pretty much everything furry that you could think of.
13. Matt Barton. "Matt Chat 361: Dr. Cat Part I." YouTube, 12/4/2016 - A five-part interview with the creator of the early 2000s furry MMO, Furcadia! While he talks about a few different things over the course of this interview, not just Furcadia/the furry fandom, it's still an interesting perspective to hear, and full of details you can't get anywhere else.
14. 🔺alt.fan.furry - The former UseNet hub of the online furry fandom, now hosted and archived by Google Groups. It's highly inactive now, and partially overrun by spam posts, but the group dates back to 1990, so it has a lot of good history! (If you can sift through the near-endless flame wars...)
15. Fading Memories (YouTube channel) - A video archive documenting hundreds of Furcadia "dreams", or user-made worlds. The videos range from two to twenty minutes long, and document the player exploring these dreams and interacting with the objects and NPCs within them. (Be warned, some of these dreams are adults-only, and may contain sensitive content!)
16. 🔺"This Sordid Little Business" / The Burned Fur Manifesto (via the Internet Archive) - Charla Trotman's infamous statement about sexual and otherwise unconventional behavior in the furry fandom, written in the late 90s. An interesting insight into the general views and mindset of the Burned Furs.
17. Jahangari's History of FurryMUCK (via the Internet Archive) - An extensive, year-by-year account of the happenings of FurryMUCK from 1990 to 2000. Though the accounts do get a bit more sparse towards the end of the decade, it's still an excellent resource!
18. Mythsong - A website about otherkind/otherkin/etc. with a lot of cool resources to check out. The creator has been hosting this information online since 1998. One particularly useful tidbit it contains is a detailed history of the word "otherkind".
19. Steve Gallacci's archive - A collection of Steve Gallacci's works and comics, including Huzzah!, Erma Felna, and Bad Rubber. For those interested in Albedo Anthropomorphics, this is an amazing archive to explore.
20. Fred Patten's Illustrated Chronology of Furry Fandom - A detailed timeline of media that has influenced the fandom from the 60's through the 90's. Written by Fred Patten, who is considered a grandfather of the community and a very influential figure. While flayrah has technically already been included on this list, I felt that this specific page was important and useful enough to list as a standalone item.