Thanks Mark. A lot of anime fandom sites have been remarking about how much of what they love is thanks to Fred helping to import it in the early days. Then there was his work with Streamline Pictures with Jerry Beck of Cartoonresearch.com. I think this involved subtitling for imported anime (?) - (relating to a comment I left about that here) and I'm wondering if the rise of fansubbing led to the company ending. Anyways, when Fred moved on, he still kept a long relationship with Jerry, who left a note on the 2017 finale of Fred's "Funny Animals and More" column here.
Jerry also answered my private message to him:
I knew Fred very well. We were friends since the 1970s and I employed him to work at Streamline Pictures from around 1991 till he finally left when money ran out in the early 2000s. We remained good friends after that - we were colleagues in an animation apartment, APATOONS, and he wrote entries for my books ANIMATION ART and THE ANIMATED MOVIE GUIDE - as well as five years on weekly columns on my blog CARTOON RESEARCH. I am not a furry, so we did not talk about that much. We knew each other over anime, manga comic books, classic TV and movie animation and science fiction books. Fred was well rounded as a fan, as he had many interests. Our world is a better place because of Fred's research and writings. He will be missed.
Thanks Mark. A lot of anime fandom sites have been remarking about how much of what they love is thanks to Fred helping to import it in the early days. Then there was his work with Streamline Pictures with Jerry Beck of Cartoonresearch.com. I think this involved subtitling for imported anime (?) - (relating to a comment I left about that here) and I'm wondering if the rise of fansubbing led to the company ending. Anyways, when Fred moved on, he still kept a long relationship with Jerry, who left a note on the 2017 finale of Fred's "Funny Animals and More" column here.
Jerry also answered my private message to him: