Pat Munson-Siter
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| Name: | Pat Munson-Siter |
| Alias(es): | Pat Munson |
| Type: | Fanwriter, Fanartist, Zine Publisher, Zine editor |
| Fandoms: | Gatchaman, Saint Seiya, Lensman, Star Wars, Dragonriders of Pern, Darkover, Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, others |
| Communities: | Argon of Cantee, DragonWeb, Cartoon/Fantasy Organization |
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Pat Munson-Siter was a fan active in early anime zines, who also participated in fandoms like Star Wars and Dragonriders of Pern. She was the head of Argon of Cantee and DragonWeb, a welcommittee for Pern fandom, and also served as a board member of the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization starting in 1987. She ran Bird Scramble!, a Gatchaman apazine that continues to the present day, and Call of the Lens, a Lensman apazine.[1]
She is credited as being influential in the early American anime fandom, especially in the Saint Seiya fandom, having compiled the Saint Seiya Series Review, one of the first canon resources for Saint Seiya available in English, and The Five Star Stories Series Guide.
Saint Seiya’s most prominent exponent was Pat Munson-Siter, whose research and fan artwork was powerful enough to fill 112 pages of her Saint Seiya Series Review. This was quite an accomplishment, considering the sum total of official English-language Seiya material at the time was... pretty much nothing. Munson-Siter’s work became the basis for the Saint Seiya Role-Playing Game, an unofficial RPG system by John Lash that gave late 80s gamers the chance to throw dice and battle as the Saints. How many other anime series inspired American fans to create role-playing games? (the answer is 2.) Pat sadly passed away in 2020 and is missed by anime fan friends and family alike."Knights Of The Seiya Zodiac" by Dave Merrill - Let's Anime, April 28/22
Pat passed away on September 18, 2020 from cancer.
Today is the birthday of my friend Patricia Munson-Siter, #anime fan, fencer and writer, US Air Force veteran. She died too young, of cancer, last September. "All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain." Fly high beautiful.
Awards
ConStellation 1983 Masquerade: Hall Costume Award for her Darkover Lady costume[2].
Notable Fanworks
Fanfiction
- Deep the Gathering Gloom (1984) (Star Wars) - part of the "Black Jedi" series.
Zines
As Editor
- Bird Scramble! (1986-onwards)
- Call of the Lens (1987-onwards)
- Celluloid Diversions (1980s) - co-editor with Randall S. Stukey (chief) and Dave Merrill
- Saint Seiya Series Review (1980s)
- The Five Star Stories Series Guide (1993)
As Contributor
- Art (Star Wars) - Warped Space Issue #33/34 (1978) [as "Pat Munson"]
- Art (Star Wars) - Warped Space Issue #38 (1978) [as "Pat Munson"]
- Art/Fanfic (unknown) - Celluloid Diversions (1980s)
- Art (Sime~Gen) - A Companion in Zeor Issue #6 (1980)
- Art (Darkover) - Contes di Cottman IV Issue #4 (1983)
- Art (Darkover) - Jumeaux Issue #5 (1983)
- "Deep the Gathering Gloom" (Star Wars: Original Trilogy) - Time Warp (multifandom zine) Issue #6/7 (1984)
- Art (front and back cover) (Dragonriders of Pern) - Fortfolio Issue #1 (1984)
- Art (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) - The U.N.C.L.E. Special Issue #4 (1986)
- "The Last Class of School" (Sime~Gen) - A Companion in Zeor Issue #9 (1987)
- "Japanese Animation 101" (Anime) - Comlink Issue #31 (1987)
- "Japanese Animation 102" (Anime) - Comlink Issue #34 (1988)
- Art "Roy and Claudia" (front cover) (Robotech Saga) - Comlink Issue #34 (1988)
- Art (Dragonriders of Pern) - Fortfolio Issue #2 (1989)
- "Canteean Meeting" (Dragonriders of Pern) - Fortfolio Issue #2 (1989)
- "Dark Thoughts by Candlelight" (Yoroiden Samurai Troopers) art and story - Anime House Presents Issue #3 (1990)
- Art - Anime House Presents Issue #7 (1992)
Fanart
From Warped Space Issue #33/34 (1978)
From Contes di Cottman IV #4 (1983)
Inside Jumeaux Def #5, art by Pat (1983)
Front Cover, Fortfolio #1 (1984)
Back cover, Fortfolio #1 (1984)
Interior, Fortfolio Issue #2 (1989)
"Roy and Claudia" (Robotech) - front cover of Comlink Issue #34 (1988)
Meta
- Gatchaman Synopses I and II (via Wayback May 10/23) - co-written with Alara Rogers and James Long.
External Links
- Patricia Anne Munson-Siter Collection, (AFC/2001/001/108415), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (as a descendent of WWI veterans and a vet herself, Pat was interviewed several times by the Library of Congress for their Veterans History Project. She also published a biography about her grandparents.)