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Forum - View topicNEWS: Anime, Manga Essayist Fred Patten Passes Away at 77
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KabaKabaFruit
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Buddy, you don't even know the half of it. Too bad the influence of anime in America by people like Patten is practically lost on today's generation who look at everything post mid-2000s as being relevant. |
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doomydoomdoom
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This is a really big loss for the anime & manga buff community here in the U.S. Fred contributed so much to that early fandom of the 70s and 80s, it's difficult to say to what extent the fandom would have been built at the time it was without him. Discovered manga in 1970 and began importing it for his book store, helped start C/FO later that decade, joined Carl Macek and Jerry Beck at Streamline as its first employee and was the sole employee remaining when Carl shut it down in 2002, he saw Streamline through to the bitter, obscure end.
I'm glad he wrote all of those articles and such that people who want to know what he contributed can read about it. He was one of the few who literally saw the fandom start (helped start it himself!) from nothing and become what it is today. R.I.P. And yeah this is turning out to be a bad season for fandom deaths. Stan Lee, John Rogers, Fred, etc... R.I.P. to them all. :( |
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Cabron
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