Critters
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Critters was a furry anthology comic book published by Fantagraphics Books from 1985 to 1990 under the editorship of Kim Thompson.
Prior to Furrlough and Genus, this series was the longest running furry anthology comic book series. Furthermore, it served as the flagship title of Fantagraphics' line of furry series in the 1980s.
The series included in the book were:
- Birthright by Steve Gallacci - Dystopian story set a few generations ahead of his Erma Felna: EDF series in Albedo Anthropomorphics.
- Fission Chicken by J.P. Morgan - The adventures of an ill-tempered chicken superhero.
- Gnuff by Fred Milton - A translation of Swedish comics about a family of dragons which stylistically owes a great deal to the stories of Carl Barks.
- Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai, which featured the adventures of the rabbit ronin before the strip got its own book.
- Lionheart by Tom Stazer - In which the title character (a journalist cat) relates the bizarre stories he investigates.
However, the comic book was notorious for ignoring reader's requests for favourite series while stubbornly running ones that were consistently unpopular and sales eventually suffered for it. The last 12 issues had the format changed to revolving features of issue long stories which undercut the advantage of anthologies having a greater chance of issues containing stories that would have appeal to readers. This eventually led to the title's cancellation.
[edit] References
Writings on the rise and fall of Critters:
- Crittics (Hominids, Oh!) by Taral Wayne
- Furthering the Form: The Critters Collapse, editorial by Ray Rooney in Furtherance #2 (pp 12-13)
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