Mandate

What do I want to do?

Furry Sex Comics is a small retail business where I try my best to sell erotic work at as many Canadian fan conventions as possible.

Furry Sex Comics celebrates the amateur comic book as physical art object. I want to promote and develop the hard-copy paper comics medium.

Furry Sex Comics is devoted to esoteric fetish content, which is wonderful and deserves just as much prestige as the rest of human sexuality gets.

Policy

How am I going to accomplish my Mandate?

Content policy

Furry Sex Comics is, by design, meant to be inclusive of various controversial kinks.

Here are some things that I am happy to sell at my table:

• "Gore" content depicting simulated extreme violence.
• "Feral" content depicting simulated quadrupedal characters.
• "Consensual non-consent" content depicting simulated rape and assault.
• "Adult baby / diaper lover" content depicting simulated infantile characters.

It is your right to be uncomfortable about any of these topics. They all have niche appeal precisely because they reflect strong taboos in our society.

Please do not behave in any way that makes me regret taking this stand.

I will not sell:

• Shit that you didn't make yourself.
• Material not containing furry characters.

For very obvious reasons, I reserve the right to decline any comic whose content is illegal in Canada.

Most wanted

Furry Sex Comics is a pretty long way off from having any need to be selective, but if this is necessary in the distant future, here is how to guarantee that I will stock your comic:

• Weird sex preferred above all else. If you have no proof that anyone else on planet Earth is into your fetish, there is a place for your comic book at my table.
• Original characters strongly preferred over copyright-crush fanworks.
• Homemade copybooks and made-in-Canada manufacturing strongly preferred over overseas print-on-demand.

Return policy

As long as you bought it on the same con weekend, you may come exchange any undamaged Furry Sex Comics zine for store credit.

Comic zines are, by nature, more ephemeral and amateur-quality than other printed works. I don't want you to be unhappy with a truly defective product, but my exchange policy is conditional and will be cut off if I think it is being abused.

The border

I am not interested in entering the United States with a suitcase full of oddball fetish material and a point-of-sale device. I have no plans to bring Furry Sex Comics to any American conventions, ever.

I would be enthusiastic if anyone in the United States ever wanted to copy my business model, borrow all of my branding, and stock my zine library. Feel free to reach out!

Debanking

How can queer creators sell their stuff?

I can help!

Most furries at this point are aware that our favourite payment processors (PayPal, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard) hate sexual content with a passion far exceeding the actual laws on the books in most Western countries. Concordantly, most queer people are (or should be) aware that our lives will always be held to the strictest double standard available. The simple fact that our interests only appeal to a minority inspires circular logic - they must be niche because they're unacceptable!

In addition to pressuring large corporations to change their policies, I think it is important to build distribution networks that completely circumvent them. Many tech companies enjoy near-monopoly power, which makes them arrogant and lazy. Advocacy is always more powerful when you can credibly threaten to take your ball and go home.

The fatal flaw of e-commerce is that your political enemies are usually 2 clicks away from learning exactly what kind of terrifying sexual content you're slinging. A cash sale at a members-only furry convention is all but untraceable. Isn't that scary?

My debanking action plan

At my convention table, I currently use a point-of-sale device made by a certain large company. Luckily, because Furry Sex Comics is NOT a web store, I am NOT using this company's developer API (which would be guaranteed to alert them that I'm here). Mass repression is always lazy and sloppy, so I am pretty sure that they will continue to harass large public marketplaces instead of making any serious effort to find me.

Because I focus on in-person sales, I have access to more alternative services than online retailers do. If one ever cuts me off, I will bounce between their competitors, as is my right.

In case I ever misbehave so badly that I get locked out of every single point-of-sale service active in Canada - which I would find hilarious - please come prepared to pay by cash or Interac e-transfer.

Philosophy

Value statements

The furry fandom is extremely reliant on large internet platforms and produces an endless attention-economy churn of disposable digital content. If FurAffinity, Bluesky, and Telegram went down tomorrow, what would be left?

If the answer is "a few underground comic books" instead of "nothing", then we have done something useful and interesting!

I am inspired by:

• Convention staff and volunteers, who have been doing the difficult work of maintaining furry's physical footprint for decades.
• Past queer liberationists and all the good parts of their dangerous, provocative legacy.
• The unknowable spark of madness which drives human beings to find furry vore more attractive than coitus.

A Pride charity? Why not the con charity?

If you've read my collaborations page, you might notice that collab zine revenues will be donated to "a local Pride charity". But every furry con already has a charitable partner! Why not just support what the con is doing?

The idea of a "con charity" is a public relations masterstroke, important in the days when furries were completely unknown to the public. Older furry organizers will still brag about how furry convention philanthropy changed the public discourse around the community.

Our cute animal connection comes at a very specific price, which is by design. It downplays the fact that furries are, largely, weird sexual deviants. (I assume you'll agree with me on this one, since you're willingly reading content on a website called furrysexcomics.ca.)

When you peek under the hood, there is no consensus among today's furry cons. Many convention organizers have already switched all of their charitable giving over to Pride charities. Other cons split the difference and co-nominate both an "animal charity" AND a "pride charity".

Furry con charities in Canada (2025)

In my own personal opinion, Vancoufur has it right. Cute animals already have enough friends in this world. If being furry means anything, I think we should probably direct our limited resources towards society's most vulnerable.

Vocabulary

Are we talking about the same things?

Zine - If you ask me, a zine is a crappy photocopied booklet written by somebody who cares a lot. It is not a thick high-production-value collaborative fandom bible that will only ever exist as a pdf.

If you pick it up in real life and think "Hey! I could do this!", it's a zine.

NSFW - One of my least favourite acronyms ever. Of course this ship has already sailed and people around the world say "NSFW" when they mean "sexual". Has there ever really been an office job where looking at furry inflation is OK, just as long as there are no genitals involved?

Kink vs. Fetish - I always use these interchangeably, but some people say that "kink" is more morally neutral. I feel like the additional weight of the word "fetish", implying the exclusion of "conventional" sexual desire, is sometimes inaccurate but at other times desirable.

Porn vs. Erotica - I feel strongly about this one! Both of these words come from Greek, where "porn" is a snarl word connoting deviance and disapproval. Yes, the more neutral "erotica" sounds a little clinical in everyday speech, but I am willing to try and force the issue for philosophical reasons.

Fandom vs. Community - A lot of people strongly feel that the furry fandom is something much more special than other fandoms. I tepidly agree, but I don't think it's self-evident that we've actually done the political work to conceive of ourselves as a special group.

Many furries really do just consume furry media (or, god forbid, regular media) and then go about their daily lives as usual. Is there anything even remotely subversive about that? Do we think there will ever be a government that bans Zootopia 2?

If furry has any kind of potential to be anything, I think it is because we have something very fascinating to tell the world about sex and desire!

Amateurism vs. Punk - A lot of people say that zines are an inherently "punk" medium. I have no solid reason to disagree, I just feel the need to point out that I personally am a huge giga nerd who wears a button-up shirt every day. Have you perhaps noticed how long these policy statements are running??

I think furry artists, whose trade is naturally aesthetic, can sometimes mistake radical aesthetic for radical action. As an armchair historian, I would like to remind everybody that the most boring people with the most average taste can still be the first ones on the barricades. In this sense, I am more concerned with F.S.C. having a sustainable business model than I am concerned with its "punk" credentials.

Although I am maybe the furthest possible thing from a punk expert, I am a big believer in amateurism, which is the uncomfortable idea that we all still have a lot to learn. In this sense, I think zines are certainly an inherently "amateur" medium.

At least, until Furry Sex Comics grows into my full-time job. Any day now!