Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures

Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
The DMFA logo, © Amber Williams, 2005
Author(s)	Amber Williams
Website	http://www.missmab.com
Update schedule	Wednesdays
Launch date	1999
End Date	Ongoing
Genre	Fantasy
Rating(s)

Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, also known as DMFA, is a furry web comic by Amber Williams. It is divided into arcs (subplots) of variable length. The webcomic currently updates every Wednesday. It was co-hosted on The Katbox from 2013 through 2019.

The first five arcs are in black and white. Starting in the middle of the sixth arc, the comic has been in color. The comic is partially based off of the online game Furcadia and several of the main characters are based off of the artist's friends there (it was originally titled Dan and Mab's Furcadian Adventures).

DMFA was a runner-up in the 2005 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic.

In September 2005, the comic's site was hacked. The title was replaced with "Some Stupid Webcomic" and most of the homepage links were redirected to http://www.cvrpg.com/ . On September 21 the site was restored with a new layout and it was revealed that the "hacking" had been a prank by Amber and her brother Mike.

The comic as a whole was rated PG, but on 25 January, 2023, it got bumped up to NC-14 when a character swore for the first time on page 2101. Abel's Story arc (starting on 15 October 2005) was and still is rated NC-14. The DMFA Radio Project, founded in July 2005, provides an unofficial voiced version of much of the comic.

Origins of DMFA

DMFA began in 1998, when Amber promised a shrine of sorts on Furcadia to anyone who could find a particular song for her. When a friend who went by the name of Daniel Ti'Fiona found the song in question, Amber made good on her promise and created the shrine. As a joke, she added a sign proclaiming "Coming soon: the Misadventures of Daniel Ti'Fiona, the comic!" However, Daniel took this seriously and continually prodded her to actually start the comic until she finally gave in, posting the first comic in 1999.

Initially featuring Daniel and Miss Mab, the cast of the comic soon expanded, including both friends of Amber's on Furcadia and characters of her own creation. Later on in 1999, the comic fell into a hiatus for about a year. Amber resumed comic production in 2000, and the comic has been updating steadily ever since.

Abel's Story

Abel's Story began in October 2005 as a result of a donation drive in which fans donated towards either Abel's or Regina's backstory. While initially planned for 20 to around 50 pages, part one of the bonus arc, Summer of Youth, reached 109 pages while part two, Break, is now completed at 105 pages.

Premise

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The comic's arcs revolve around the adventures and misadventures of the cast. Most of these exploits are whimsical and humorous, sometimes parodying aspects of popular culture. Most events occur in a fictional land called Furrae; specifically, in an inn/pub called Lost Lake (based off of the real Lost Lake in Furcadia).

Characters

Main article: List of characters in Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures

Trivia

• Queen Mab is a fairy queen in contemporary folklore.
• Mab is the first three letters of Amber rearranged.
• The Foxfire Chronicles includes the Cubi race from DMFA.
• Project Future is a webcomic by Tapewolf and Ren Gaulen that takes place in the DMFA world.

References

• Tangents review, May 15, 2005.
• Tangents review of Abel's Story, February 8, 2006.
• Female Comic Collective review, September 26 2006.

See also

• The DMFA Wiki

External links

• DMFA forum
• Mab's Land The site where Amber hosts her non-DMFA related artwork.