Original post written by Jonesy95
Carole Curtis, co-founder of furry publishing house Shanda Fantasy Arts and writer of the comic series Katmandu, has passed away at the age of 71.
Carole was a prominent figure in the furry fandom since the 1990s, when she and her husband James Michael ‘Mike’ Curtis – an accomplished comic writer and artist in his own right – released the slice-of-life comic Shanda the Panda in 1992. Shanda would provide the namesake for the publishing company Shanda Fantasy Arts (initially an imprint of Vision Comics), which they founded in 1996 after Shanda the Panda and various other furry comics were dropped by Antarctic Press. SFA would go on to publish a number of prominent furry comics and anthologies, including Steve Gallacci‘s Albedo Anthropomorphics, Shawntae Howard’s Extinctioners, the late Mary Hanson-Roberts‘ Here Comes a Candle, and many more over its 22 years of operation.
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