Hi, I'm Frederik L. Schodt (a.k.a. "Fred") These portraits/mug shots were rendered by a Panasonic artificial vision system. The one on the left was output as a rubber stamp, which I used to create an image on paper that was then scanned into a computer. The one on the right was drawn by a robot, the robot arm holding an ink-soaked brush and tracing the outlines generated by the vision system. Do the images look like me? You guess! The February 1999 issue of the British magazine, Manga Max, described the Revolver Ocelot action figure as a "Fred Schodt-looka-like." Revolver's a character from the popular Konami video game, Metal Gear Solid, and the action figures are made by McFarlane Toys. You can view Revolver from all sorts of angles with a variety of information by clicking here. I don't normally carry two pistols or wear a trenchcoat. I'm actually a relatively peaceful writer, translator, and intepreter who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. And if you want to see what the weather's like in San Francisco right now, click HERE for a view from the KPIX cameras. I don't quite get the same view from my window, but there's a certain amount of overlap when looking from the hill behind my place.

For a peek at a bibliography of my writings, there are two options. One is to check the short, illustrated lists of my books, translated novels, and manga. The other is to look at the full, text version, which includes articles and most everything else ever written by me, and can be accessed by clicking HERE.

(You can e-mail me at: fred [at mark] jai2.com)