I'm worried about Fred as well, apparently it's pneumonia and he probably won't be coming to Anime-LA where he's supposed to be Fan Guest of Honor. Crumbs, he is not getting any younger, is he? LA Fandom has lost so many of his generation lately. We may be going to same con on Sunday; I'm entertaining some friends who are booted out of their house for the day on account of exterminator tenting. This sounded like a good way to entertain them!

I remember when Fred and Mark M. started C/FO, gosh, 1978 or 79 or so? Ran 'toons in the LASFS Clubhouse, then in an offsite rental hall someplace else in the valley, then they went over-the-hill to the West Side. My first exposure to Japanese Animation made later than Astro Boy. Good times!