Carl Macek, who died of a heart attack on Saturday, was a divisive figure in anime fandom. If it ever hurt him, it was because he rejected the premise that he was not part of it himself. To his own mind, he was as big an anime fan as anybody else, someone who had put his career on the line to bring Japanese cartoons to America. He was the anime business's inconvenient truth, the man who shrugged with a smile and said that it was fine if you wanted to make your show that way, although you'd o...
Published on April 19, 2010 00:54