Nasty nasty rabbits. I remember seeing the top panel featured in a comics magazine in the mid-Eighties that ran an article about the upsurge of anthropomorphic animal comics (back when it was a curious but welcome trend...before the dark times....before the scandals). It made a crack about rabbits being Republicans, as I recall.

Scandals?

When the media started to focus on the furry fandom as a sexual fetish rather than a particular focus in storytelling.

It didn't help that there were so many furries who were happy to prove them right.

Or that the media wasn't going to let a "good story" get in the way of facts. So disallusioning to to see "journalists" going into situations (real news) with their minds already made up as to what and how they are going to tell it, regardless of the facts presented.

My point being the difference in coverage in the Eighties vs the Nineties. The fandom was a smaller, more exclusive group back then, if I remember correctly. So the focus was on comics rather than the fursuiters.

I guess I missed any media coverage of anything that could be considered "furry" early on, instead there was chatter related to the boom and later bust of black and white indies and the TMNT phenom. Then, even pre-CSI, the fur-suit freak show. Thankfully, the one issue the real media missed (?) was the "skunk fucker" period.

I think it was the TMNT comic-related boom that was getting the coverage that I remember.

That would be Amazing Heroes #129, the Special Funny-Animal Issue (Nov 87), in the Steve Gallacci interview. :) Which has a couple of less-clothed Erma pieces, but never put in as sensationalism, just examples of the art. (It also says Zell, Sworddancer isn't dead, but by now...)

I certainly loved that issue, with the realisation that there was a whole fandom behind the type of art, and I started getting a ton of small press and minicomics stuff by mail.

I think that is the one! One of those things that got me so curious about anthro comics.

I know that is the one, I had it open while replying earlier :)

For some reason, I thought it was an article in Comics Journal, but that was a long time ago that I read it, so I'm probably misremembering that part. I don't doubt that you have the issue that I actually read. I appreciate the clarification.

definitely bad Rabbits...

V.

Oh, man.

War crime in progress.

David Birkenhead would be upset.

"I understood that reference!!"

Nazi Hunters then,

Rabbit Hunters later.

*breaks out a baseball bat* "Be very quiet, I'm huntin' rabbit"

So how are hares trested in the ILR?

Our Host's bold move to portray rabbits as the aggressors is on full display here.

It is..., but then, "Watership Down". Nothing meek about a lot of THOSE rabbits.

Also, given that the ILR is a single-species entity, it seems logical, if sad, that they would lack empathy for the anthros of other species.

Watership Down was the inspiration for the ILR, as well as a perfect choice to play against type.

Nice to know..., thanks, Steve.

Belligerent bunnies for certain.

Well well well, I do remember this. fun times. ^__^