Francis Lacassin is an essay writer, specialist in the popular cultures. He has inter alia fact part of the small group which offered to the Cartoon her recognition and he is the inventor of the formula " 9th art". He carried out and prefaced the editions of reference of a great number of authors or series, in particular with the Éditions Robert Laffont, Bouquins collection: Eugene Sweats, Gustave Lerouge, Maurice Leblanc, Fantômas, Lovecraft, etc

Some works

• On the ways which go (memories of the author), ED. rock, 2006
• Tarzan or the Knight contracted , 10/18. The work includes/understands in appendix a lexicon of the Langue large-monkey.
• For the ninth art: the cartoon
• For Against History Of the Cinema
• Under the mask of Léo Malet: Nestor Burma (ED. Inking)
• Alfred Machin: jungle with the screen , Paris, Dreamland, 2001,223 p.
• Louis Feuillade, Anthology of the cinema , 1966
• the company of the cinéromans (1918-1930)

Related articles

• Critical of the book " Family-without-nom" by F. Lacassin (Jules Verne delivers)
• Préface of the book " Shipwrecked men of the “Jonathan” " by F. Lacassin, delivers of Jules Verne, adapted by his son, Michel Verne