It was actually the difference between the fight that I had to do just to get even the slightest bit of recognition with my former sprite comic compared to the relative ease that I’ve been accepted into the community and have gotten to do, for instance, awesome podcasts like this that is one of the original driving forces behind the “How NOT To” list.

While Furry comics do not suffer the same type of stigma that sprite and gamer comics do (99% of them are bad, and the 1% that aren’t are rarely worth the time and effort required to sort through and find them), they do still have a degree of “price of entry”. A lot of people automatically equate having anthromorphic characters to furry, to fursuiters, to yiffing… and then it just goes downhill from there.

While the overall furry community is fairly supportive in-and-of-itself, the question is whether or not it’s supportive enough to hold up the fragile psyche of an unconfident inexperienced first-time webcomic author/artist who’s just finding their way in the world.

Ultimately, if it’s your passion, or you’re really good at it, I say go for it (see Rule 10). Otherwise, if you don’t “need” those characters to be talking humanoform animals and you’re just doing it to be dynamic or visually interesting, you might want to reconsider.