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.

Helen McCarthy on Twitter/X, October 13, 2021

Awards

ConStellation 1983 Masquerade: Hall Costume Award for her Darkover Lady costume[2].

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