>>651883Robert Crumb said something along the lines(I'm heavily paraphrasing but the meaning is the same)
>My favorite comics were Pogos and [other funny animal comics]. Once the stopped being printed, I stopped being interested in comics And started making his own. Superheroes became popular again by the early 60's, the funny animal comics he's talking about were at their peak in the 50's. I don't remember if the original quote had him saying he wasn't into superheroes.
The same sentiment appears in Vootie, completely separate underground comix that was meant to be for funny animals only, but was stomping around the same the late 70's (Crumb was kinda on an hiatus over some copyright argument at this time, he killed Fritz the Cat years earlier, and when he came back he started doing more autobiographical/blog comics, I can only imagine if he kept Fritz alive). So you had a bunch of fans who wanted something, no one else was making it, and they weren't bound by publishers demanding it to be for kids only or to follow a strict censorship code. Vootie would eventually spark some of the first and earliest people to call themselves furries in the 80's. And by this time you already had horny stuff like Omaha the Cat-dancer.
The 80's saw a huge fucking boom in independent comics and fanzines, a lot of shit we don't even connect with furries like TMNT and Usagi Yojimbo. The latter of which came out directly in a furry focused comic anthology(Albedo Anthropomorphics), and the TMNT creators were in touch with a lot of independent creators, like the creator of Cerebus which also stared a funny animal but in a darker setting. This kind of stuff, furries coming out of independent comic scenes and how it was basically intertwined, is overlooked. By the 90's you'd have fursuiters and cons selling fetish art and all the stuff we're more familiar with these days.
It's an inherently /co/ thing, more than just "people though Robin Hood was hot", but you can't talk about it too much on 4cuck /co/ and I haven't been on /trash/ in years
>>652108I have yet to watch this video but tell me if I'm accurate or not.
I had furry friends who didn't know any of this shit but it feels like more common knowledge now.