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"The Critter's Tale" - A recruiting flyer distributed starting May 1977, to get more cartoonists to join the "Vootie" apa (Amateur Press Association). This flyer was published about a year after the start of "Vootie". There is a second page of text that shares more details. Text by Ken Fletcher; art by Jim Schumeister.
You can see the emphasis on 'funny animals' in the art, but you might also see the influence of humor magazines and underground comics. The founding editors were fans of comics with anthro-characters, toon-critters, & funny animals, and wanted to promote that as something to create. They were also influenced by MAD magazine and underground comics.
There were actually many comic-art fanzines in the 1970s, some of them with remarkable art. The stories and art in those zines were almost entirely about superheroes. This flyer was also a visual signal that the Vootie apa was creating a different category of zine.
(This copy has specific addresses removed.)
You can see the emphasis on 'funny animals' in the art, but you might also see the influence of humor magazines and underground comics. The founding editors were fans of comics with anthro-characters, toon-critters, & funny animals, and wanted to promote that as something to create. They were also influenced by MAD magazine and underground comics.
There were actually many comic-art fanzines in the 1970s, some of them with remarkable art. The stories and art in those zines were almost entirely about superheroes. This flyer was also a visual signal that the Vootie apa was creating a different category of zine.
(This copy has specific addresses removed.)
Category All / Miscellaneous
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 893 x 1200px
File Size 230.2 kB
Listed in Folders
I was 26 in 1977, being in Lubbock Texas at the time I had zero chance of encountering this group. I was drawing and writing alien/anthropomorphic materials around 1971 while in the Air Force (Sheppard AFB, Texas.) "SGT! Man that gate from 2300 hours until 0700." "Yessir." Looks around as pick-um-up drives away, gate is locked, no one can get within a mile without being seen, whipped out the notebook and started writing... under moonlight. I would have loved to run across 'furries' at the time.
This reminds me of the comics I read back then.
This reminds me of the comics I read back then.
I was five.
10 years later I was collecting "Fusion" and "Xanadu" and rolling up folders full of characters for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness"
20 years later I got on the internet and found out about anthro fandom.
30 years later I registered on FA but didn't post any work until 3 years after that.
The time do fly, don't it? I ain't yet what you'd call an old man, but I'm a young man transitioning very rapidly into one, and the weeks seem to pass like days. Stuff that happened a week ago seems like years and years past.
Much respect to the old guard and grognards in this particular little corner of human interest. I always love to see these bits of history. They're important!
10 years later I was collecting "Fusion" and "Xanadu" and rolling up folders full of characters for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness"
20 years later I got on the internet and found out about anthro fandom.
30 years later I registered on FA but didn't post any work until 3 years after that.
The time do fly, don't it? I ain't yet what you'd call an old man, but I'm a young man transitioning very rapidly into one, and the weeks seem to pass like days. Stuff that happened a week ago seems like years and years past.
Much respect to the old guard and grognards in this particular little corner of human interest. I always love to see these bits of history. They're important!
40 years ago i was almost 30.
i still haven't learned how to think in terms of what someone else might find funny.
occasionally i remember the theoretical stuff,
but humor's never really been a big thing in my life.
mostly i think i'm afraid of it getting me into trouble if i did.
of course i see funny people do get in trouble but usually not deep trouble,
and just keep going on. then again, sometimes they don't.
yah, i think the superhero thing was a big part of why i never got into the comic thing too.
from the time i started walking and talking it always seemed to me,
that whether they were my own age or old enough to be grandparents,
that almost no one ever really paid enough attention to what they were doing.
to what kind of a world they were creating,
or even willing to admit they were doing so.
i still haven't learned how to think in terms of what someone else might find funny.
occasionally i remember the theoretical stuff,
but humor's never really been a big thing in my life.
mostly i think i'm afraid of it getting me into trouble if i did.
of course i see funny people do get in trouble but usually not deep trouble,
and just keep going on. then again, sometimes they don't.
yah, i think the superhero thing was a big part of why i never got into the comic thing too.
from the time i started walking and talking it always seemed to me,
that whether they were my own age or old enough to be grandparents,
that almost no one ever really paid enough attention to what they were doing.
to what kind of a world they were creating,
or even willing to admit they were doing so.
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