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Freddy Milton

2007-04-03T07:13:01Z

Ventifax: stubbity stub stub

'''Freddy Milton''' is a Danish comic book writer-artist, best known to American audiences for [[Gnuff]], which was featured in [[Critters]].

==External links==
*[http://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/milton_f.htm Freddy Milton] page on Lambiek.net
*[http://www.freddymilton.dk/ freddymilton.dk] - artist's website

* [http://www.tegneseriemuseet.dk/bio/art_milton_fr.htm Tegneseriemuseets (The Comics Museum in Denmark) biography of Freddy Milton]
* [http://coa.inducks.org/simp.php?lg=2&creat=freddy+milton&pagel=l Freddy Milton at I.N.D.U.C.K.S. Disney comics database]

{{stub}}

Rowrbrazzle

2007-04-03T06:14:47Z

Ventifax: added quote from Fred Patten. upd: #93 is coming

[[Image:RowrBrazzle-17.jpg|thumb|right|Rowrbrazzle #17. Cover art by [[Mike Kazaleh]]]]
'''''Rowrbrazzle''''' (also known as '''''Brazzle''''') is an [[wikipedia:amateur press association|amateur press association]] (APA) magazine devoted to [[wikipedia:funny animals|funny animal]] cartoon illustration, that for a long time was a bulwark for [[furry fandom]]. The word is a misspelling of "rowrbazzle!", an exclamation used at times by the characters in [[wikipedia:Walt Kelly|Walt Kelly's]] comic-strip "[[wikipedia:Pogo|Pogo]]".

==History==
''Rowrbrazzle'' was co-created by [[Marc Schirmeister]] and [[John Cawley]] in 1983 as a result of the cessation of its predecessor, ''[[Vootie]]'', with the first issue being distributed to its first contributors in February 1984. [[Fred Patten]] took over as an official editor five years later, and as served in this position for the last 17 years, until he had to step down in 2005 due to illness. [[Mike Curtis]], [[Edd Vick]], [[Michael Susko]] and others are currently serving as interim editors until a new permanent editor is found.

The first issue was distributed to the association membership in February 1984, it is still published as of July 2006 (with over 90 quarterly issues so far), and it is continuing its uninterrupted 20+ year run. Number 93 is due the Spring of 2007, in a continuing uninterrupted run of 24 years. Rowrbrazzle is always looking for new members. Furry [[writer]]s and [[artist]]s are invited to contact any of the interim editors.

==Significance==

[[Fred Patten]], onetime editor of ''Rowrbrazzle'', had this (biased) view of 'Brazzle's significance:
:"My thesis is that furry fandom coalesced out of sf fandom and comics fandom, blending elements from both of them and achieving its own critical mass in 1983/1984. The first clear signs of the independent furry fandom were the creation of its first apa, Rowrbrazzle, and the decision by some fans to self-publish furry comic books because there seemed to be enough fans of stories with talking animals to support them (as distinct from earlier attempts to self-publish comics which had to hope for sufficient sales from the general public alone.)
:"...
:"Rowrbrazzle started in February 1984. Since it was specifically an apa for writing and drawing funny animals as a genre and discussing the new fandom that was forming about them, it is a handy landmark to say that 'furry fandom existed at this time.'"[http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mglyer/club/page2.html]

== Known members ==
*Administrative
** Marc Schirmeister (Editor 1983-1988. Permanent Honorary member since 1989.)
** John Cawley (Co-Editor 1983-1988.)
** Fred Patten (Joined 1984, Editor 1988-2005. Left position in mid 2005 due to illness.)
** Edd Vick (Interim Editor 2005)

*Permanent Honorary members
** [[Ken Sample]] (1988-n/a)
** [[Fred Patten]] (2006 on)

*Members

{| width="100%"
|- valign="top"
||
===# & A-F===
* [[Robert Alley]] (2006 - present)
* [[Kaijima Appleseed]] (?-?)
* [[Kjartan Arnorsson|Kjartan "Karno" Arnorsson]] (? - present)
* [[Mark "Th' Mole" D. Ashworth]] (1985 - present)
* [[James "Slim Jim" Edward Babcock]] (?-?, 2006 - present)
* [[Donna Barr]] (?-?)
* [[Greg Bear]] (?-?)
* [[Mitch Beiro]] (? - present)
* [[James W. 'Tibo' Birdsall]] (? - present)
* [[Michael Campbell]] (? - present)
* [[Dan 'Flinthoof' Canaan]] (? - present)
* [[Canuss]] (?-?)
* [[Robert Carspecken]] (?-?)
* [[Jimmy Chin]] (?-?)
* [[Don Chisholm]] (? - present)
* [[Mike Curtis]] (often with Carole Curtis) (? - present)
* [[Darin C. Davis]] (?-?)
* [[David DuPerre]] (?-?)
* [[Will Faust]] (? - present)
* [[Timothy Fay]] (1983 - present)
* [[Bill Fitts]] (? - ?, ? - present)
* [[Bill Fortier]] (?-?)
* [[Brad W. Foster]] (1984 and 1986)
||

===G-L===
* [[Jason Gaffney|Jason "Jagafeh" Gaffney]] (? - ?)
* [[Carl Gafford]] (? - ?)
* [[Charles Garofalo]] (? - present)
* [[Roz Gibson]] (? - ?)
* [[William Earl Haskell]] (2005 - 2006, editor issue 90)
* [[Rob Haynie]] (? - ?)
* [[Robert Hill]] (? - ?)
* [[Zephery Hughes]] (? - present)
* [[Mike Kazaleh]] (? - ?)
* [[Shawn Keller]] (? - ?)
* [[Mike Kelly]] (? - ?)
* [[Steve Kerry]] (? - ?)
* [[Paul Kidd]] (? - withdrew Oct 1998, #59)
* [[Kris Kreutzman]] (? - present)
* [[Dave Kuhn]] (? - ?)
* [[Tom Linehan]] (? - ?)
* [[Monika Livingstone]] (? - ?)
||

===M-R===
* [[Scott Malcomson]] (? - ?)
* [[Steve Martin]] (1984 - ?)
* [[Jed Gary Martinez]] (? - present)
* [[Michael-Scot McMurry]] (? - ?)
* [[Chuck Melville]] (? - ?)
* [[Carl Fox|Karl F. Meyers]] (Oct 1998 - Jan 2002)
* [[Noah Miller]] (? - ?)
* [[Rusty Mills]] (? - ?)
* [[Rudy Minger]] (? - ?)
* [[Carolyn Mitchell]] (? - ?)
* [[Wayne Modjeski]] (? - ?)
* [[JP Morgan]] (? - present)
* [[Per Okerstrom]] (? - ?)
* [[Tom Owens]] (? - ?)
* [[Michael Oxley]] (? - ?)
* [[James Price|James "Q" Price]] (? - ?)
* [[Betty Roget]] (mid 1990s)
||

===S-Z===

* [[Stan Sakai]] (? - ?)
* [[Chris Sanders]] (? - ?)
* [[Chris Sawyer]] (? - ?)
* [[Steven F. Scharff]] (1983 - present)
* [[David Schneberger]] (? - ?)
* [[Bob Scott]] (? - ?)
* [[Axel Shaikman]] (? - ?)
* [[James Smith]] (? - ?)
* [[Terrie Smith]] (? - 2006)
* [[Chris Sobieniak]] (2005 - present)
* [[John Speidel]] (? - ?, 2006 - present)
* [[Joe Strike]] (? - present)
* [[Michael J. Susko]] (? - present)
* [[G. W. Thomas]] (? - ?)
* [[Marc S. Tucker]] (? - ?)
* [[Tom Verre]] (? - ?)
* [[Edd Vick]] (1984 - present)
* [[Wendell Washer]] (? - ?)
* [[Taral Wayne]] (1984 - ?)
* [[Deal Whitley]] (? - ?)
* [[Colleen Winters]] (? - ?)
* [[Jeff Wood]] (? - ?)
|}

==See also==

* [[Wikipedia:Rowrbrazzle|Rowrbrazzle]] on [[Wikipedia]]

== External links ==
===Primary sources===
*''[http://www.rootoon.com/rb/ Rootoon.com]'' sample of pages by contributor Timothy Fay.
*[http://www.snowbuni.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1160968822 "Rowrbrazzle Lives!"] message board thread from ''[http://www.snowbuni.com/ SnowBuni.com]''
===Secondary sources===
*[http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mglyer/club/page2.html ''File 770'' Issue 127, November 1998] - section about Fred Patten, "The Fur Frontier"
*[http://www.nnseek.com/e/fur.misc/furry_semi_faq_21884116m.html#21884116 Furry Semi-FAQ at '''''nnseek''''']

===Booksellers===
*[http://www.milehighcomics.com/comicindex/Title-ROWRBRAZZLE--1983--by-Independents--All.html ''Rowrbrazzle'' at Mile High Comics]

{{furry fandom}}
[[Category:1983 births]]
[[Category:Fanzines]]
{{Wikipedia|Rowrbrazzle}}

Rowrbrazzle

2007-04-03T06:09:55Z

Ventifax: /* See also */ copied source links I added to Wikipedia pg

[[Image:RowrBrazzle-17.jpg|thumb|right|Rowrbrazzle #17. Cover art by [[Mike Kazaleh]]]]
'''''Rowrbrazzle''''' (also known as '''''Brazzle''''') is an [[wikipedia:amateur press association|amateur press association]] (APA) magazine devoted to [[wikipedia:funny animals|funny animal]] cartoon illustration, that for a long time was a bulwark for [[furry fandom]]. The word is a misspelling of "rowrbazzle!", an exclamation used at times by the characters in [[wikipedia:Walt Kelly|Walt Kelly's]] comic-strip "[[wikipedia:Pogo|Pogo]]".

==History==
''Rowrbrazzle'' was co-created by [[Marc Schirmeister]] and [[John Cawley]] in 1983 as a result of the cessation of its predecessor, ''[[Vootie]]'', with the first issue being distributed to its first contributors in February 1984. [[Fred Patten]] took over as an official editor five years later, and as served in this position for the last 17 years, until he had to step down in 2005 due to illness. [[Mike Curtis]], [[Edd Vick]], [[Michael Susko]] and others are currently serving as interim editors until a new permanent editor is found.

The first issue was distributed to the association membership in February 1984, it is still published as of July 2006 (with 90 quarterly issues so far), and it is continuing its uninterrupted 20+ year run. Rowrbrazzle is always looking for new members. Furry [[writer]]s and [[artist]]s are invited to contact any of the interim editors.

== Known members ==
*Administrative
** Marc Schirmeister (Editor 1983-1988. Permanent Honorary member since 1989.)
** John Cawley (Co-Editor 1983-1988.)
** Fred Patten (Joined 1984, Editor 1988-2005. Left position in mid 2005 due to illness.)
** Edd Vick (Interim Editor 2005)

*Permanent Honorary members
** [[Ken Sample]] (1988-n/a)
** [[Fred Patten]] (2006 on)

*Members

{| width="100%"
|- valign="top"
||
===# & A-F===
* [[Robert Alley]] (2006 - present)
* [[Kaijima Appleseed]] (?-?)
* [[Kjartan Arnorsson|Kjartan "Karno" Arnorsson]] (? - present)
* [[Mark "Th' Mole" D. Ashworth]] (1985 - present)
* [[James "Slim Jim" Edward Babcock]] (?-?, 2006 - present)
* [[Donna Barr]] (?-?)
* [[Greg Bear]] (?-?)
* [[Mitch Beiro]] (? - present)
* [[James W. 'Tibo' Birdsall]] (? - present)
* [[Michael Campbell]] (? - present)
* [[Dan 'Flinthoof' Canaan]] (? - present)
* [[Canuss]] (?-?)
* [[Robert Carspecken]] (?-?)
* [[Jimmy Chin]] (?-?)
* [[Don Chisholm]] (? - present)
* [[Mike Curtis]] (often with Carole Curtis) (? - present)
* [[Darin C. Davis]] (?-?)
* [[David DuPerre]] (?-?)
* [[Will Faust]] (? - present)
* [[Timothy Fay]] (1983 - present)
* [[Bill Fitts]] (? - ?, ? - present)
* [[Bill Fortier]] (?-?)
* [[Brad W. Foster]] (1984 and 1986)
||

===G-L===
* [[Jason Gaffney|Jason "Jagafeh" Gaffney]] (? - ?)
* [[Carl Gafford]] (? - ?)
* [[Charles Garofalo]] (? - present)
* [[Roz Gibson]] (? - ?)
* [[William Earl Haskell]] (2005 - 2006, editor issue 90)
* [[Rob Haynie]] (? - ?)
* [[Robert Hill]] (? - ?)
* [[Zephery Hughes]] (? - present)
* [[Mike Kazaleh]] (? - ?)
* [[Shawn Keller]] (? - ?)
* [[Mike Kelly]] (? - ?)
* [[Steve Kerry]] (? - ?)
* [[Paul Kidd]] (? - withdrew Oct 1998, #59)
* [[Kris Kreutzman]] (? - present)
* [[Dave Kuhn]] (? - ?)
* [[Tom Linehan]] (? - ?)
* [[Monika Livingstone]] (? - ?)
||

===M-R===
* [[Scott Malcomson]] (? - ?)
* [[Steve Martin]] (1984 - ?)
* [[Jed Gary Martinez]] (? - present)
* [[Michael-Scot McMurry]] (? - ?)
* [[Chuck Melville]] (? - ?)
* [[Carl Fox|Karl F. Meyers]] (Oct 1998 - Jan 2002)
* [[Noah Miller]] (? - ?)
* [[Rusty Mills]] (? - ?)
* [[Rudy Minger]] (? - ?)
* [[Carolyn Mitchell]] (? - ?)
* [[Wayne Modjeski]] (? - ?)
* [[JP Morgan]] (? - present)
* [[Per Okerstrom]] (? - ?)
* [[Tom Owens]] (? - ?)
* [[Michael Oxley]] (? - ?)
* [[James Price|James "Q" Price]] (? - ?)
* [[Betty Roget]] (mid 1990s)
||

===S-Z===

* [[Stan Sakai]] (? - ?)
* [[Chris Sanders]] (? - ?)
* [[Chris Sawyer]] (? - ?)
* [[Steven F. Scharff]] (1983 - present)
* [[David Schneberger]] (? - ?)
* [[Bob Scott]] (? - ?)
* [[Axel Shaikman]] (? - ?)
* [[James Smith]] (? - ?)
* [[Terrie Smith]] (? - 2006)
* [[Chris Sobieniak]] (2005 - present)
* [[John Speidel]] (? - ?, 2006 - present)
* [[Joe Strike]] (? - present)
* [[Michael J. Susko]] (? - present)
* [[G. W. Thomas]] (? - ?)
* [[Marc S. Tucker]] (? - ?)
* [[Tom Verre]] (? - ?)
* [[Edd Vick]] (1984 - present)
* [[Wendell Washer]] (? - ?)
* [[Taral Wayne]] (1984 - ?)
* [[Deal Whitley]] (? - ?)
* [[Colleen Winters]] (? - ?)
* [[Jeff Wood]] (? - ?)
|}

==See also==

* [[Wikipedia:Rowrbrazzle|Rowrbrazzle]] on [[Wikipedia]]

== External links ==
===Primary sources===
*''[http://www.rootoon.com/rb/ Rootoon.com]'' sample of pages by contributor Timothy Fay.
*[http://www.snowbuni.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1160968822 "Rowrbrazzle Lives!"] message board thread from ''[http://www.snowbuni.com/ SnowBuni.com]''
===Secondary sources===
*[http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mglyer/club/page2.html ''File 770'' Issue 127, November 1998] - section about Fred Patten, "The Fur Frontier"
*[http://www.nnseek.com/e/fur.misc/furry_semi_faq_21884116m.html#21884116 Furry Semi-FAQ at '''''nnseek''''']

===Booksellers===
*[http://www.milehighcomics.com/comicindex/Title-ROWRBRAZZLE--1983--by-Independents--All.html ''Rowrbrazzle'' at Mile High Comics]

{{furry fandom}}
[[Category:1983 births]]
[[Category:Fanzines]]
{{Wikipedia|Rowrbrazzle}}

Gnuff

2007-04-03T05:28:22Z

Ventifax: del Wikipedia categories

'''''Gnuff''''' is a Danish [[comic book]] series about an anthropomorphic [[dragon]] who lives in a city with his wife Gnellie and his son Gnicky. They keep their wings hidden (they are compact enough to be concealed under their clothing) and generally try to live quietly, being considered 'outsiders' in a [[Carl Barks]]-like world of contemporary funny animals.

Gnuff first appeared in the Scandinavian [[fanzine]] ''Sejd'' (#12, 1974). Over the years, creator [[Freddy Milton]] has written and drawn many feature-length stories, resulting in a series of full-color albums, a regular Sunday-page newspaper comic strip, and appearances in ''[[Critters]]''.

The Gnuff stories often revolve around social and environmental concerns. In an interview in ''Amazing Heroes'' #129, Milton said, "My dragons openly depict the problems of minorities. they have to conceal their old culture (their wings) to make it in our society. Also, they are a species on the decline. These are the reasons why they appeal to me."

==External links==
* The Amazing Heroes interview cited above can be read here: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/7211/fmart.html
*[http://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/milton_f.htm Freddy Milton] page on Lambiek.net
*[http://www.freddymilton.dk/ freddymilton.dk]

Gnuff

2007-04-03T05:26:19Z

Ventifax: mirrored from Wikipedia

The Adventures of Captain Jack

2007-04-03T05:17:51Z

Ventifax: upd. w/ info from endangered Wikipedia pg

[[Image:CaptJackCover.png|thumb|right|Cover of issue #1, with Captain Jack posing]]
'''The Adventures of Captain Jack''' is a [[funny animal]] [[comic book]] created by animator [[Mike Kazaleh]], and published by [[Fantagraphics Books]]. It about the misadventures of a shady private starship captain, and his misfit crew.

The series was enhanced by Kazelah's smooth, animation-influenced artwork, reminiscent in style to that of [[Chuck Jones]].

It has been collected as '''The Collected Captain Jack ''' and '''More Collected Adventures of Captain Jack''', both from MU Press.

==Plot-lines==

The crew's adventures have included encounters with a crazy wizard and his giant pinball machine, the farm planet of Janet's father, Herman's near-death experience (where God is shown to actually be the almighty dollar), the attempted rescue of lost astronaut Stanley Tomcat (who doesn't want to be rescued), a planet of TV-hating housewives, and more.

==Cast==

The comic's characters include [[Captain Jack]], the self-assured, gray-furred [[cat]] captain of the starhip '''Glass Onion'''; '''Herman Feldman''', crewmember [[dog]] (who actually ''likes'' "space food"); '''Beezlebub''' ''(sic)'', Herman's tiny, demonic sidekick (who is invisible to the rest of the cast); and '''Adam Fink''', an [[anthroid|android]] dog who usually gets stuck with the heavy lifting. Later, they are joined by '''Janet''' (a [[raccoon]]), a farmer's daughter who falls in love with Herman, and viceversa.

== External links ==

* [http://www.tigerden.com/~berios/kazaleh.html Web Page About Mike Kazeleh]
* [http://mupress.com/catalogpg03.html Mike Kazeleh] collections in the MU Press catalogue

{{comic-stub|Adventures of Captain Jack, The}}
{{Wikipedia|The Adventures of Captain Jack}}
[[Category:Comics|Adventures of Captain Jack, The]]

Rhudiprrt, Prince of Fur

2007-04-02T06:40:28Z

Ventifax: upd Teri Sue Wood link, corrected name of her homesite

{{wikify}}
[[Image:RhudiprrtCover.png|right|thumb|Cover by [[Phil Foglio]]]]
'''''Rhudiprrt: Prince of Fur''''' is a [[comic book]] created by [[Dwight Decker]] and [[Teri Sue Wood]] and published by [[Mu Press]].

== Premise ==

The story begins with the death of an elderly and lonely veteran, Warren Schaeffer, whose cat died soon before him. In the afterlife threshold, Warren meets a guardian spirit who tells him of his passage to [[Heaven]], but Warren balks when he learns that his cat, as an animal, is excluded from there.

In the resulting argument, a cat goddess named Ilura intercedes and offers an alternative for Warren over the objections of the guardian spirit. Warren accepts and he is taken to the cat afterlife, where cats are reborn into a humanoid primitive civilization. The goddess takes Warren to witness the assassination of a birth defective prince Rhudiprrt. At the moment of his death, Warren is installed as the prince's body's replacement consciousness and charged with the duty of advancing the cat civilization in some undefined way.

Now, as Rhudiprrt and temporarily unable to speak, Warren must adjust to his new life and face the political intrigues he has found himself in.

== Characters ==

== Comic status ==

After Wood left the series with issue 6, a new artist came on board, but the lost momentum was never regained and after some behind the scenes turmoil, publication ground to a halt with issue 9. Years later, Teri Wood resumed the title on her own, writing and drawing issues 10-12. Despite poor sales Mu Press has committed to publishing a conclusion to the story in a promised graphic novel to be written and drawn by Wood. The status of this resolution project is uncertain. Wood in 2006 has announced she is for now concentrating on recovering from health problems.

==External links==
*[http://www.teriwood.com/ The ChallenderWood, website of Teri Wood]
*[http://art-bin.com/art/awertham.html Dwight Decker article on Fredric Wertham]

[[Category: comics]]
{{wikipedia|Rhudiprrt: Prince of Fur}}

{{comic-stub}}

Teri Sue Wood

2007-04-02T06:39:18Z

Ventifax: same stub I put on Wikipedia. really, do I have to create all the comic artist pages in the world myself?

'''Teri Sue Wood''', also credited as '''Teri Wood, Teri S. Wood,''' & '''T. S. Wood,''' is a [[comic book]] writer/artist. Her work includes the '''''Amazing Heroes''''' strip "The Cartoonist", the graphic novel '''''Wandering Star''''', & '''''[[Rhudiprrt, Prince of Fur]]'''''.

Due to personal & health problems, she dropped out of full-time comics-creating in the late 1990's, abandoning her long-planned project '''''Darklight''''' after only three issues.

====External links====
[http://www.teriwood.com/ The ChallenderWood] - personal site

User:Ventifax

2006-05-11T22:31:06Z

Ventifax:

It seems my Wikimedia presence is expanding. I am also Ventifax on Wikipedia--&, as of 10 minutes ago, Wikispecies. [[User:Ventifax|Ventifax]] 22:30, 11 May 2006 (UTC) I mostly stick to Wikipedia proper, though.

User:Ventifax

2006-05-11T22:30:18Z

Ventifax:

It seems my Wikimedia presence is expanding. I am also Ventifax on Wikipedia--&, as of 4 minutes ago, Wikispecies. [[User:Ventifax|Ventifax]] 22:30, 11 May 2006 (UTC) I mostly stick to Wikipedia proper, though.