We’re sad to report that Ed Zolna passed away on November 4, 2024.
To most new participants in Furry Fandom, that’s not a name that will mean anything. Ed played a vital and largely unique role in the 80s and 90s of the fandom, before the Internet kicked in, and consequently didn’t leave much of a digital footprint. He’s most known as the founder of two furry mail-order distribution businesses.
The first was Mailbox Books in 1987. There were a lot of furry fan-made zines, art folios and comics being produced, but the fandom had no obvious center nor common area in which to find them, so that’s where Ed’s mail-order business came in, based out of his home in Roslyn, PA. By 1995 his catalog was a 40-page booklet.
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