Updates from Palladium

Ok, then. I know it's been almost 6 months since my last blog post, but I have an update or two from Palladium Books concerning the Robotech sourcebooks.

First, the Press Releases have been changed to Weekly Updates, and second, both the Robotech New Generation and Robotech UEEF Marines sourcebooks will be released sometime this Fall. As for when they will be released is still up in the air.

BREAKING NEWS: Carl Macek Dead At 58 from Heart Attack

Thanks to CaptainJLS and numerous other resources for this sad, albiet shocking story.

American Anime Producer Carl Macek Passes Away
posted on 2010-04-19 00:39 EDT
Robotech producer's passing announced by Streamline co-founder Jerry Beck

Animation historian Jerry Beck reported on his blog on Sunday that American producer Carl Macek passed away due to a heart attack on Saturday. Macek and Beck had co-founded the anime importing company Streamline Pictures in 1988.

Macek is best known for producing Robotech, the 1985 redubbed and edited adaptation of three different anime series — Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeada. He also worked on the dubbing of many anime projects from Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (redubbed and edited adaptation of Captain Harlock and Queen Millennia) to more recently, Bleach and Naruto. His other dubbing production credits include Vampire Hunter D, Robot Carnival, My Neighbor Totoro, and Aura Battler Dunbine. Although Streamline Pictures did not dub the 1988 film Akira, it did release the film in theaters and on video tape in the United States.

Outside anime, Macek wrote The Art of Heavy Metal (Animation for the Eighties), the 1981 book about the Canadian animated film Heavy Metal. That led to his co-writing credit on the Heavy Metal 2000 spinoff. He also developed the Lady Death film at ADV Films and wrote War Eagles, a novel based on an unproduced film treatment by Merian C. Cooper.

Update: More background information added.

I am shocked beyond words at the passing of Carl Macek. He was the one who put together Macross, Southern Cross and MOSPEADA into an 85-episode series called Robotech which debuted in 1985. If it weren’t for Carl Macek, Robotech would never be possible. There wouldn’t be a series, spin-offs, movies, toys, the whole enchilada.

Carl will be missed.

Palladium Books Update: 04/03/2010

Both the forthcoming Robotech UEEF Marines Sourcebook and the Robotech New Generation Sourcebook will both be released sometime this Summer, according to Palladium's latest press release. Both books will be manga-sized, just like the previous books.

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SDF Macross (ADV dub) now available on Hulu.com

And best yet, they're free:

http://www.hulu.com/super-dimension-fortress-macross