Nationality Canadian Name Claude Pelletier | Occupation Writer | |
Claude J. Pelletier is the editor and publisher of Protoculture Addicts, and a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career
Claude J. Pelletier founded the Montreal-based company Ianus Publications, to publish first historical papers and later a science-fiction fanzine called Samizdat (1986). When Pelletier was introduced to the Robotech TV show in 1987, he decided to publish a Robotech fanzine as well, Protoculture Addicts (1987). By issue #10 Ianus dropped their Robotech license and Protoculture Addicts now covered the entire anime scene, and as part of this expansion Pelletier brought in a new partner, graphic designer Pierre Ouellette. Ianus began publishing role-playing games, and in December 1995 the company split in two: a new company called Protoculture retained Protoculture Addicts and two of the former Ianus staff, Pelletier and Martin Ouellette, while the now fully independent Dream Pod 9 kept the majority of Ianus' dozen employees and also kept the roleplaying titles.