Eric Losfeld was a French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 publisher who had a reputation for publishing controversial material with his publishing imprint Éditions Le Terrain Vague.

He was the publisher of Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle is the lead character in a series of French softcore erotic movies based on a character created by Emmanuelle Arsan in the novel Emmanuelle...

(1967), two film magazines

Film journals and magazines

Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception. Their articles contrast with film reviewing in newspapers and magazines which principally serve as a consumer guide to...

 (Midi Minuit Fantastique

Midi Minuit Fantastique

Midi Minuit Fantastique was a French film magazine published by Eric Losfeld . Michel Caen and Alain Le Bris started it, accompanied by Jean Boullet and Jean-Claude Romer....

and Positif

Positif (magazine)

Positif is a French film magazine, founded in 1952 by Bernard Chardère. It was published by Eric Losfeld.It often acted as a counterpoint to Cahiers du cinéma, another well-known French film journal, notably with Gerard Gozlan's article sarcastically titled "In Praise of André Bazin."The current...

) and the works of Ado Kyrou.

He published the Barbarella

Barbarella (comic book)

Barbarella is a fictional heroine in the French science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest. He created the character for serialisation in the French magazine V-Magazine in spring 1962, and in 1964 Eric Losfeld later published these strips as a stand-alone book, under the title...

science fiction

Science fiction

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 comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 created by Jean-Claude Forest

Jean-Claude Forest

Jean-Claude Forest was a writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella.-Biography:...

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Eric Losfeld's tombstone inscription reads: "Tout ce qu'il éditait avait le souffle de la liberté." ("Everything he edited had the breath of freedom.")