Growl (person)

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Growl (Paul Groulx) is a furry who was born in Canada and lived there until 1994. He has dual citizenship and now lives in California, United States. Although always a fur at heart, he only discovered furry fandom in 1989 at a room party at the Balticon Science Fiction Convention. His totem is a raccoon.

In 1992 Growl created and ran the Furthest North Crew APA. Although FNC is the first Canadian based furry APA it included members from all over the world. The original title for the publication came from Jeremy Kidd who presented a large drawing entitled “The Furthest North Crew” to Growl on the flight to ConFurence 2 as a gift thinking that they would be the only two furs from Canada traveling to that convention. Growl ran FNC for approximately three years and then passed the duties of running the publication to John Boulton and Niall MacConnaill. Niall and Bryan Feir currently run FNC.

North American Fur Apa-zine (NAF) was founded in 1997 by Paul Groulx, and he published the first three issues. When Ed Zolna closed down Mailbox Books in the spring of 1999, NAF almost folded because that was the major market. Jarlidium (who also happen to be charter members of NAF) were able to step in and continue the title, with all the same contributors.

Growl does not presently run any publications and has since returned to fursuiting. He built his first fursuit in 1983, has won awards for stage performances in the past, and is listed as a journeyman costumer with the International Costumers Guild. In 2004, Growl came up with the concept of an online fursuit database and www.fur-suit.org was born through the efforts of Radjin and Timduru. He travels and fursuits at many of the furcons across the U.S.A.

Growl can be found as Growl Fardel on Second Life. There, he started and currently runs Castle Dark Haven, a huge furry castle located on Growl1.