Jim Caughran

(October 16, 1940 – August 6, 2024)

James Gilbert Caughran was a longtime fan, active since he was a teenager in Lincoln, NE, in the 1950s, until his death. He began the process of bringing Fancyclopedia 2 to the web as Fancyclopedia 3 and was Fancy 3's first editor.

He was a cast member of The Musquite Kid Rides Again in 1960. He was a member of FAPA, The Cult and OMPA. He hitchhiked from Nebraska to Illwiscon in Chicago in 1958.

John Trimble published A Fanzine for Jim Caughran in May 1962.

Jim went to college at the University of California-Berkeley and earned a master’s degree and Ph.d. at the University of Michigan. He lived in Toronto at the time of his death.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• A L'Abandon (for OMPA)
• A Propos Du Barean [late 1950s] (with Ron Ellik)
• A Propos de Rien (his Fapazine)
• Erratic
• If It's Friday, This Must Be Rajasthan [2006] (with Janet Carrington)
• Road Bash [1958] (with Lars Bourne)
• Virtual Paper
• When a Trufan Dies [1958 (The Year of the Jackpot)] (for OMPA)

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1940—2024

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