Fred Patten became an active s/f fan in 1960. He

has attended most Worldcons and Westercons

since then, and was the Chairman of the 1974

Westercon and 1987 Loscon.

 He was a co-founder

of the first Japanese animation fan club, the

Cartoon/Fantasy Organization, in 1977. He wrote

regular animé columns for many years for

Animation World Magazine, Comics Buyer’s

Guide, and Newtype USA, and he has been a

consultant for many animation and animé film

festivals. He was a manager at Streamline Pictures,

one of America’s earliest animé specialty

companies, from 1991 to 2003, and was a

freelance writer from then until he had a stroke in

early 2005. He is still active in LASFS and its apa,

APA-L, and reviews anthropomorphic literature for

the online Anthro magazine. He is the editor of

Best in Show: Fifteen Years of Outstanding Furry

Fiction (Sofawolf Press, 2003), and the author of

Watching Animé, Reading Manga: 25 Years of

Essays and Reviews (Stone Bridge Press, 2004).

He was our Fan Guest of Honor at Animé Los Angeles 1 (in absentia, due to illness).