Furry Planet

Joe Strike

Description

Perfect for cultural, general interest, and fan-specific, endemic media: Furry Planet has a built-in audience and will intrigue a wide range of media, through text and visual excerpts, Q&As, and features geared toward TV, print, digital, podcast, and radio outlets. Outlets to include the likes of Vice, BuzzFeed, Rolling Stone, New York Times, New York magazine, and more.

Expert author with media track record: Strike is the go-to expert on all things furry and has been interviewed by CBS’s The Doctors, the New York Post, Slate, CNN, and a wide range of other outlets, and written for the New York Daily News, Fur Affinity, Animation World Network, and more. He will be easy to book follow-up interviews with or op-eds around pub.

Features interviews with dozens of artists, musicians, writers, and furries, including designer Rob Roth, performer Jason Martin, artists Sophie Ryder, Margit Brundin, and Anthony Ausgang, and authors Kyell Gold and Mary E. Lowd.

In-person events in author’s NYC hometown and around comic-cons and furcons nationwide: Strike can do signings and other promotional events in and around his New York City home and at New York’s Comic-Con, as well as in or near furcons throughout the US, such as those in Chicago, Pittsburg, Atlanta, Dallas, and Orlando.

Trade media outreach: Pitch for coverage by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness. Book is well-written and should receive positive reviews. The Midwest Book Review gave a “high recommendation” and glowing review for Strike’s first book.

Social media, influencer, and BookTok coverage by author, interviewees in the book, and influencers: Furry Planet will be widely promoted to furries on social media and to cosplay influencers and BookTokers interested in cosplay, furry fandom, and related subcultures. The author will also heavily promote and request that the wealth of interviewees in the book do the same.

Targeted digital advertising with SEO keywords to reach furry fans, the furry curious, cosplayers, and those searching for gifts for cosplayers.

From a veteran fur comes an immersive entry into the world of furry fandom, with an inside look at an amazing subculture, the timeless human instinct to identify with animals, and color images of furry costumes, art, and conventions.

Furs are the creative subculture of people who identify with animals. You can find them at furry conventions, furfests, around the world—tens of thousands of people donning their most elaborate fursuit. In costume, at conventions, with friends or alone, furries unleash the animal within, letting their inner beasts roar and their inner cats purr, aware of the power—and joy—to be found in bringing forward one’s animal side and encouraging others to do the same.

In Furry Planet, long-time furry Joe Strike dives deep into this compelling subculture to share its appeal and rewards. Strike and a wealth of interviewees trace the history of the subculture and its various iterations today, in the process covering conventions, media, art, storytelling, community resources, costume creation, and advice for newcomers, and addressing stigmas and misconceptions head on.

An unprecedented in-depth guide, Furry Planet is sure to inform and delight the ever-growing furry fandom and anyone who has ever been curious about it. Inside you’ll find:

• Insight into the natural human impulse to anthropomorphize animals
• A fascinating history of furry fandom
• A detailed look at furcons around the world
• Inspiration for fursuit costume creation
• Color images of costumes, art, and conventions
• Much more!

Introduction: What, Me Furry?

 

1. It’s a Furry World

2. Mainstream Anthropomorphic Movies and Television

3. Meetings with Remarkable Furs

4. Mainstream Anthropomorphic Literature

5. Suits Me Just Fine

6. Mainstream Anthropomorphic Theater

7. Author! Author!

8. Mainstream Anthropomorphic Sculpture

9. I Dig a Brony

10. Mainstream Anthropomorphic Art

11. Pretty as a Picture (Furry Art)

12. Furry After Dark

13. Mainstream Anthropomorphic Performance Art

14. Is Everybody Happy? (Well, Not Quite)

15. Music to my Furry Ears (and Eyes)

16. Mainstream, Here We Come (Maybe)

17. The Furry Future

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

Sujets

• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• General officer
• Anthropology
• Animals
• General
• Topic
• Social
• Cosplay
• Culture

Informations

• Publié par: Apollo Publishers
• Date de parution: 29 août 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781954641112
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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