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List of members of Rowrbrazzle

2026-01-30T03:59:24Z

Marcus Stariller: I am John Bandow and I have been a member of Rowrbrazzle since the fall of 2024, so I thought it was high time I added my name to the member list.

The following is a '''list of members of, and contributors to, the ''[[Rowrbrazzle]]'' amateur press association magazine'''.

== Staff and artists ==
==== Administrative ====
* Marc Schirmeister (Editor 1983-1988. Permanent Honorary member since 1989.)<ref name="#26">Contributors to [http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction/item.pl?item=232339334 #26] (July 1990)</ref><ref name="#27">Contributors to #27 (October 1990)</ref>
* John Cawley (Co-Editor 1983-1988.)
* Fred Patten (Joined 1984, Editor 1988-2005. Left position in mid 2005 due to illness.)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* Glen Wooten (Interim Editor 2005-2006)
* Edd Vick (Interim Editor 2005, 2006 (3 issues))
* William Earl Haskell (Editor Summer, 2007 - 2016) Permanent Honorary member
* Edd Vick (Editor 2016-Present)

==== Permanent Honorary members ====
* [[Ken Sample]] (1988 - onwards)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Fred Patten]] (2006 - onwards)
* [[Marc Schirmeister]] (? - onwards)
* [http://eaton.ucr.edu/ Eaton Collections Special Collections, UCR Libraries], [http://www.ucr.edu/ University of California, UC Riverside] (? - onwards)

==== Members ====

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===# & A-F===
* [[Juan Alfonso]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Robert Alley]] (2006 - present)
* [[Kaijima Appleseed]] (? - ?)
* [[Kjartan Arnorsson|Kjartan "Karno" Arnorsson]] (? - present)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Mark D. Ashworth|Mark "Th' Mole" D. Ashworth]] (1985 - present)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[James Edward Babcock|James "Slim Jim" Edward Babcock]] (? - ?, 2006 - present)
* [[Donna Barr]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Greg Bear]] (? - ?)
* [[Mitch Beiro]] (? - present)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Charles Brubaker]] (2019 - present)
* [[Tibo|James W. 'Tibo' Birdsall]] (? - present)
* [[James L. Brandt]] (2006 - present)
* [[Andrea Cavallaro]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Michael Campbell]] (? - present)
* [[Flinthoof|Dan 'Flinthoof' Canaan]] (? - present)
* [[Robert Carspecken]] (? - ?)
* [[Jack Cavanaugh]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Richard Chandler]] (#61 - #68)
* [[Jimmy Chin]] (? - ?)
* [[Don Chisholm]] (? - present)
* [[Steve Corbett]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Mike Curtis]] (often with Carole Curtis) (? - present)
* [[Darin C. Davis]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
* [[David DuPerre]] (? - ?)
* [[Eric Elliott]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Will Faust]] (? - present)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Timothy Fay]] (1983 - present)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Bill Fitts]] (? - ?, ? - present)
* [[Dan Flahive]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Bill Fortier]] (? - ?)
* [[Brad W. Foster]] (1984 and 1986)
* [[Mark Freid]] (1998 - 2000)
* [[John Bandow]] (2024 - present)
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===G-L===
* [[Jason Gaffney|Jason "Jagafeh" Gaffney]] (? - ?)
* [[Carl Gafford]] (? - ?)
* [[Charles Garofalo]] (? - present)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Roz Gibson]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="furbid27-232339335" />
* [[Sara K. Gray]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Jim Groat]] (1983 - 1999)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="furbid27-232339335" />
* [[William Earl Haskell]] (2005 - 2006, editor issue 90)
* [[Robert S. Haynie Jr.]] (? - ?)
* [[Cathy Hill]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Robert Hill]] (? - ?)
* [[Craig Hilton]]<ref name="furbid27-232339335">[https://archive.is/http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction/item.pl?item=232339335 FurBid-SF - auction of a ROWRBRAZZLE #27 - Oct 90], archived 2012 December 25, with partial list of contributors</ref>
* [[Tracy Horton]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Zephery Hughes]] (? - present)
* [[Jenner]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Mike Kazaleh]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="furbid27-232339335" />
* [[Shawn Keller]] (? - ?)
* [[Mike Kelly]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Steve Kerry]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Paul Kidd]] (? - withdrew Oct 1998, #59)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Kris Kreutzman]] (? - present)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Dave Kuhn]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Tom Linehan]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Monika Livingstone]] (? - ?) />
* [[Louis Scarborough Jr.|Lou Scarborough]] (? - ?)
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===M-R===
* [[Scott Malcomson]] (? - ?)
* [[Steve Martin]] (1984 - ?)<ref name="furbid27-232339335" />
* [[Jed Gary Martinez]] (? - present)
* [[Michael-Scot McMurry]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Chuck Melville]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Mark Merlino]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Carl Fox|Karl F. Meyers]] (Oct 1998 - Jan 2002)
* [[Noah Miller]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Tom Milliorn]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Rusty Mills]] (? - ?)
* [[Rudy Minger]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Carolyn Mitchell]] (? - ?)
* [[Wayne Modjeski]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Jeremy Morales]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Phil Morrissey]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" />
* [[J.P. Morgan]] (? - deceased)
* [[Cindy Murata]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Lex Nakashima]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Garrett Ho]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Per Okerstrom]] (? - ?)
* [[Tom Owens]] (? - ?)
* [[Michael Oxley]] (? - ?)
* [[Valerio Pastore]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Bill Fitts]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Roy D. Pounds II]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[James Price|James "Q" Price]] (? - ?)
* [[Rod O'Riley]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Scott Rodrigues]] (? - ?)
* [[Betty Roget]] (mid 1990s)
* [[Melody Rondeau]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Lance Rund]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" />
||

===S-Z===

* [[Stan Sakai]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Chris Sanders]] (? - ?)
* [[Chris Sawyer]] (? - ?)
* [[M. Schaefer]] (2007 - present)
* [[Steven F. Scharff]] (1983 - present)<ref name="#27" />
* [[David Schneberger]] (? - ?)
* [[Peter Stoller]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Bob Scott]] (? - ?)
* [[Axel Shaikman]] (? - ?)
* [[Jay Shell]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="furbid27-232339335" />
* [[Ted Sheppard]] (?- ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[James Smith]] (? - ?)
* [[Terrie Smith]] (? - 2006)<ref name="furbid27-232339335" />
* [[Wolf Smith]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Chris Sobieniak]] (2005 - present)
* [[John Speidel]] (? - ?, 2006 - present)
* [[Mark Stanley]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
* [[Joe Strike]] (? - present)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Michael J. Susko Jr.]] (? - present)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Bengaley Summercat| Henry Thiel]] (2007 - present)
* [[G. W. Thomas]] (? - ?)
* [[Marc S. Tucker]] (? - ?)
* [[Tom Verre]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Diana Vick]] (? - ?)
* [[Edd Vick]] (1984 - present)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Mark Wallace]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="furbid27-232339335" />
* [[Wendell Washer]] (? - ?)
* [[Taral Wayne]] (1984 - ?)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Deal Whitley]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" />
* [[Colleen Winters]] (? - ?)
* [[Jeff Wood]] (? - ?)<ref name="#26" /><ref name="#27" />
* [[Zjonni]] (? - ?)<ref name="#27" />
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Empires

2024-05-18T04:04:11Z

Marcus Stariller: /* "Furry Universe" Empires Projects */

{{cleanup}}
'''''Empires''''' is a [[science-fiction]] story setting created by [[Chris F. Grant]]. It has a very ''[[starwars:Star Wars|Star Wars]]''-esque style to it, with influences from many other science fiction settings as well. ''Empires'' in Furry Fandom was created early in the winter of 1989 in [[Wikipedia:Woodland, California|Woodland, California]], with the encouragement of a friend.

== History ==
[[File:Yarf1cover.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Yarf! #1 ("Ace of Spades")]]
In 1989, when the [[fanzine]] ''[[Yarf]]'' was being created, there was interest in a the creation of some regular features to help serve as anchors for the new 'zine. [[Chris F. Grant]], who was in close contact with the Yarf! staff at the time, was interested in turning ''Empires'' into a comic feature as a "10-to-15 chapter mini-series". The original science-fiction setting of the story had a mix of humans and aliens, including some furry aliens not based on terrestrial animals (rather like [[StarWars:Chewbacca|Chewbacca]] in ''Star Wars''). Chris's friends convinced him to simply replace the creatures with [[anthropomorphic]] animals and leave [[human]]s out of it. The January 1990 debut of ''Yarf!'' was also the debut of the dual-storyline ''Empires: the Ace of Spades'' and the interwoven companion story ''Empires: Morrigan's War''

Chris Grant contributed the cover art for ''Yarf!'' Issue #1, and continued to contribute cover art at fairly regular intervals (about every 10 or so issues). The "miniseries" quickly grew into a 40-chapter, 440-page ongoing story involving a regionalized war between two rival galactic governments, with numerous intertwined sub-plots and characters, two of which became iconic representations of ''Empires'' in furry fandom ([[Cpl. Barona]] and [[Cpt. Morrigan]]). The series ran regularly until January of 1996, when the series came to a final conclusion.

The production of ''Empires: TAOS/MW'' ran a gamut of production values. The constantly rotating cast of inkers created an ongoing joke within furry fandom at the time in which Grant was portrayed (humorously) as a harsh, whip-cracking deadline-adhering taskmaster, enslaving various artists to ink a handful of episodes at a time before tossing them aside like so many used dishrags. Inkers included [[Eric Blumrich]], [[Zjonni]], [[Dan Flahive]], [[Jimmy Chin]] and others who capitalized on the "Ink! Ink! Ink!" running gag. One-issue guest inkers were later featured and at times it was almost a rite-of-passage for artists to ink something to do with ''Empires''. At the same time, many satires of ''Empires'' appeared, including humorous digs from [[Jim Groat]], [[Roy D. Pounds II]] and others, many of these appeared in ''Yarf!'' alongside the feature they were parodying.

In 1991, as the project was obviously drawing to a conclusion, plans were made to contribute a more sedate story to the fanzine ''[[Mythagoras]]'' called ''Empires: Borderline''. The sporadic nature of the ''Mythagoras'' schedule doomed the project, and Grant was later contacted by Ben Dunn of [[Antarctic Press]] at the 1991 [[San Diego ComiCon]] to produce a story for his new comic ''[[Furrlough]]''. The ''Furrlough'' effort, titled ''Empires: Thunderhead'', was again to be a lead-off anchor feature for the military-themed anthology. A first chapter was created, inked by [[Eric Elliott]], and ran in issue #1 of ''Furrlough'' when editorial power was placed in the hands of [[Shon Howell]]. Shon Howell's policy was to keep ''Furrlough'' as a 'Furry-only' 'zine, without humans featured, and by this time in the original ''Yarf!''-based storyline humans had begun to be featured prominently, and the chapter of ''Empires: Thunderhead'' already featured also included many humans. Shon Howell declined to keep the feature, and it was the one and only time that it appeared.

Later, when [[Dwight Dutton]] revived the [[APA]] ''[[Huzzah]]'', the project originally destined for ''Mythagoras'' was revived and limped along for a further three chapters, only to fail when Grant became involved in seeking a degree at a local college in [[Wikipedia:Idaho|Idaho]]. Since then, there has been no more ''Empires'' graphic features produced, although numerous short stories have been produced since that have since abandoned the anthropomorphic characters and gone back to its original, science-fiction roots. Two issues of a self-published background information 'zine called [[Iriesii Manifest]] were produced by Grant, in 1996 but it was not followed up on (even though 90% of the materiel needed for a third issue is available).

The series was well into 20+ chapters when people at conventions expressed a desire to buy into the past chapters but were reluctant to buy all the back issues of [[Yarf!]]. Grant began compiling chapters into collections, 10 chapters per book, and sold them under the aegis of Central Empire Productions. The unofficial motto of CEP was "Taking a Bite out of the World Since 1989"; ''Empires'' was first published in Yarf #1 in January, 1990, production having begun in 1989.

Central Empire Productions has since been incorporated as a legal business entity in the state of Idaho (sole propietorship) Chamber of Commerce.

In 2005, after returning from a combat tour in [[Wikipedia:Iraq|Iraq]], Chris Grant registered [[Central Empire Productions]] as a legally incorporated, sole-proprietor business in the Idaho State [[Wikipedia:Chamber of Commerce|Chamber of Commerce]]. A re-emergence of ''Empires'' is planned, under the aegis of ''Iriesii Manifest'' to avoid confusion with the numerous web references to the ''Age of Empires'' videogame.

In 2023, Chris Grant and John Bandow (Marcus Starkiller) worked together on a short story entitled The CROSSROAD as a means to bring the furry version of Empires to a fitting conclusion. The story takes place during Operation Thunderhead, which only the first part of was seen in Furrlough issue #1. It can be viewed on John's DeviantArt account in the following link if you hit the download button. https://www.deviantart.com/marcusstarkiller/art/Empires-The-CROSSROAD-1050921526
Or it can be read on Chris Grants Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/Coyote/posts

== "Furry Universe" Empires Projects ==
* Empires: The Ace of Spades / Morrigan's War: Yarf! fanzine, 1990-1996.
* Empires: Borderline: Mythagoras, 1991 (first attempt; unfinished).
* Empires: Thunderhead: Furrlough anthology, 1991; cancelled by editor.
* Empires: Borderline: Huzzah APA, 1994 (second attempt; unfinished).
* Empires: The CROSSROAD, online only 2023/2024

[[Category:Shared universes]][[Category:1989 births]]

Empires

2024-05-18T04:02:31Z

Marcus Stariller: /* History */

{{cleanup}}
'''''Empires''''' is a [[science-fiction]] story setting created by [[Chris F. Grant]]. It has a very ''[[starwars:Star Wars|Star Wars]]''-esque style to it, with influences from many other science fiction settings as well. ''Empires'' in Furry Fandom was created early in the winter of 1989 in [[Wikipedia:Woodland, California|Woodland, California]], with the encouragement of a friend.

== History ==
[[File:Yarf1cover.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Yarf! #1 ("Ace of Spades")]]
In 1989, when the [[fanzine]] ''[[Yarf]]'' was being created, there was interest in a the creation of some regular features to help serve as anchors for the new 'zine. [[Chris F. Grant]], who was in close contact with the Yarf! staff at the time, was interested in turning ''Empires'' into a comic feature as a "10-to-15 chapter mini-series". The original science-fiction setting of the story had a mix of humans and aliens, including some furry aliens not based on terrestrial animals (rather like [[StarWars:Chewbacca|Chewbacca]] in ''Star Wars''). Chris's friends convinced him to simply replace the creatures with [[anthropomorphic]] animals and leave [[human]]s out of it. The January 1990 debut of ''Yarf!'' was also the debut of the dual-storyline ''Empires: the Ace of Spades'' and the interwoven companion story ''Empires: Morrigan's War''

Chris Grant contributed the cover art for ''Yarf!'' Issue #1, and continued to contribute cover art at fairly regular intervals (about every 10 or so issues). The "miniseries" quickly grew into a 40-chapter, 440-page ongoing story involving a regionalized war between two rival galactic governments, with numerous intertwined sub-plots and characters, two of which became iconic representations of ''Empires'' in furry fandom ([[Cpl. Barona]] and [[Cpt. Morrigan]]). The series ran regularly until January of 1996, when the series came to a final conclusion.

The production of ''Empires: TAOS/MW'' ran a gamut of production values. The constantly rotating cast of inkers created an ongoing joke within furry fandom at the time in which Grant was portrayed (humorously) as a harsh, whip-cracking deadline-adhering taskmaster, enslaving various artists to ink a handful of episodes at a time before tossing them aside like so many used dishrags. Inkers included [[Eric Blumrich]], [[Zjonni]], [[Dan Flahive]], [[Jimmy Chin]] and others who capitalized on the "Ink! Ink! Ink!" running gag. One-issue guest inkers were later featured and at times it was almost a rite-of-passage for artists to ink something to do with ''Empires''. At the same time, many satires of ''Empires'' appeared, including humorous digs from [[Jim Groat]], [[Roy D. Pounds II]] and others, many of these appeared in ''Yarf!'' alongside the feature they were parodying.

In 1991, as the project was obviously drawing to a conclusion, plans were made to contribute a more sedate story to the fanzine ''[[Mythagoras]]'' called ''Empires: Borderline''. The sporadic nature of the ''Mythagoras'' schedule doomed the project, and Grant was later contacted by Ben Dunn of [[Antarctic Press]] at the 1991 [[San Diego ComiCon]] to produce a story for his new comic ''[[Furrlough]]''. The ''Furrlough'' effort, titled ''Empires: Thunderhead'', was again to be a lead-off anchor feature for the military-themed anthology. A first chapter was created, inked by [[Eric Elliott]], and ran in issue #1 of ''Furrlough'' when editorial power was placed in the hands of [[Shon Howell]]. Shon Howell's policy was to keep ''Furrlough'' as a 'Furry-only' 'zine, without humans featured, and by this time in the original ''Yarf!''-based storyline humans had begun to be featured prominently, and the chapter of ''Empires: Thunderhead'' already featured also included many humans. Shon Howell declined to keep the feature, and it was the one and only time that it appeared.

Later, when [[Dwight Dutton]] revived the [[APA]] ''[[Huzzah]]'', the project originally destined for ''Mythagoras'' was revived and limped along for a further three chapters, only to fail when Grant became involved in seeking a degree at a local college in [[Wikipedia:Idaho|Idaho]]. Since then, there has been no more ''Empires'' graphic features produced, although numerous short stories have been produced since that have since abandoned the anthropomorphic characters and gone back to its original, science-fiction roots. Two issues of a self-published background information 'zine called [[Iriesii Manifest]] were produced by Grant, in 1996 but it was not followed up on (even though 90% of the materiel needed for a third issue is available).

The series was well into 20+ chapters when people at conventions expressed a desire to buy into the past chapters but were reluctant to buy all the back issues of [[Yarf!]]. Grant began compiling chapters into collections, 10 chapters per book, and sold them under the aegis of Central Empire Productions. The unofficial motto of CEP was "Taking a Bite out of the World Since 1989"; ''Empires'' was first published in Yarf #1 in January, 1990, production having begun in 1989.

Central Empire Productions has since been incorporated as a legal business entity in the state of Idaho (sole propietorship) Chamber of Commerce.

In 2005, after returning from a combat tour in [[Wikipedia:Iraq|Iraq]], Chris Grant registered [[Central Empire Productions]] as a legally incorporated, sole-proprietor business in the Idaho State [[Wikipedia:Chamber of Commerce|Chamber of Commerce]]. A re-emergence of ''Empires'' is planned, under the aegis of ''Iriesii Manifest'' to avoid confusion with the numerous web references to the ''Age of Empires'' videogame.

In 2023, Chris Grant and John Bandow (Marcus Starkiller) worked together on a short story entitled The CROSSROAD as a means to bring the furry version of Empires to a fitting conclusion. The story takes place during Operation Thunderhead, which only the first part of was seen in Furrlough issue #1. It can be viewed on John's DeviantArt account in the following link if you hit the download button. https://www.deviantart.com/marcusstarkiller/art/Empires-The-CROSSROAD-1050921526
Or it can be read on Chris Grants Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/Coyote/posts

== "Furry Universe" Empires Projects ==
* Empires: The Ace of Spades / Morrigan's War: Yarf! fanzine, 1990-1996.
* Empires: Borderline: Mythagoras, 1991 (first attempt; unfinished).
* Empires: Thunderhead: Furrlough anthology, 1991; cancelled by editor.
* Empires: Borderline: Huzzah APA, 1994 (second attempt; unfinished).

[[Category:Shared universes]][[Category:1989 births]]