Camille Cazedessus Jr.

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Camille Cazedessus II (born December 8, 1938), also known as "Caz", is an American editor and publisher. Known for his work about pulp fiction, he has published over 200 issues of fanzines on the topic since 1960 under the titles "ERB-dom", "The Fantasy Collector" and "Pulpdom". He has also written and taught Western history.

Biography

Early life

Cazedessus was born December 8, 1938 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the only child of engineer Camille Cazedessus. He graduated from Baton Rouge High School in 1957 and Spring Hill College, where he graduated in 1961. He also attended Louiana State University in Baton Rouge, La, and New Mexico Highlands College in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in each case studying American and world history.

Career

Fans of the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Caz and Alfred Guillory, Jr. launched the fanzine "ERB-dom" in May 1960.cite web |url=http://www.erbzine.com/mag11/1152.html |title=A Burroughs Biblio-Pro-Phile: Camille (Caz) Cazedessus |accessdate=2007-06-02 |date= |year= |month= |work=ERBzine |publisher=Bill Hillman ] Following Guillory's death the following year, Caz became the magazine's sole editor and publisher. He worked hard to ensure the magazine was successful and the work paid off when "ERB-dom"' was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1964 and 1966, winning the award in 1966. ERB-domwent monthly in Jan. 1970, with full color covers. In 1974 it returned to less frequent publication, and the"final" issue was No. 89, November, 1976. ERB-dom was revived as part of The Fantastic Collector in Dec. 1993.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Caz published books as Opar Press. He purchased the adzine "The Fantasy Collector" in 1968 from George Bibby, making it part of ERB-dom in Jan. 1970. Reinvigorated by Science Fiction fandom via the NOLA World Con in 1988, he revived "The Fantasy Collector" in Dec. 1988, and reserialized "A Son of the Stars" by Fenton Ash, from 1909. He soon changed the name to "The Fantastic Collector" which became "Pulpdom" in January 1997; all these issues contain articles on pulp magazines and popular authors of the early 20th century. After living in Taos, New Mexico during the 1980s, he began publishing books as Rendezvous Books, and he continues do that as of 2007 living in Chimney Rock, Colorado, a storefront was closed in Pagosa Springs, Colorado 2003, and now he sells books and pulps under that name on abe.com. [cite web |url=http://www.pagosasun.com/jun2499.htm |title=Chamber News |accessdate=2007-06-02 |last=Hameister |first=Sally |date=1999-06-24 |work=The Pagosa Springs SUN ]

Works

*(publisher) "The Literature of Burroughsiana" (1963), John Harwood
*(publisher) "Tarzan, lord of the jungle" (1968), Edgar Rice Burroughs, illus. Burne Hogarth
*(publisher) Frank Frazetta portfolio (1968)
*"A review of Dell's early Tarzan, 1948-1953" (1971)
*(publisher) "The Hero-Pulp Index" (1971), Lohr McKinstry and Robert Weinberg
*(publisher) "The Weird Menace" (1972), Robert K. Jones
*(publisher) "Ghost Stories" (1973), Sam Moskowitz & James R. Seiger
*(publisher) Zdeněk Burian portfolio (1976)
*(publisher) Roy Krenkel portfolio (1979)
*"Mountain Men : an informal bibliography" (1981)
*"The Rough Riders and New Mexico" (1994)
*"Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders : a hundred years of glory, 1898-1998" (1994)
*(editor) "Abiquiu, Chama And Pagosa Springs - 1859" (2000), John N. Macomb and J.S. Newberry
*"Meet Kit Carson" (2006)
*"The UNreal Kit Carson" (2006)
*"Old Pagosa, Views from the Past" (2007)

Serial publications:
*"Voyage" (1976-?)
*"Pulpdom, ERB-dom & The fantastic collector" (1960-present) (OCLC [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37862745 37862745] )

Awards

*1966: Hugo Award for Best Fanzine (for "ERB-dom")
*Honorary Member of the [http://www.geocities.com/erbapa/ Edgar Rice Burroughs Amateur Press Association]

References

External links

* [http://pulpdom.com/ Pulpdom]
* [http://www.abebooks.com/home/mountainman/ Rendezvous Books]

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NAME =Cazedessus, Camille Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =Caz
SHORT DESCRIPTION =American pulp fiction researcher and magazine publisher.
DATE OF BIRTH =December 8, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH =Baton Rouge, Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH =
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