Françoise Mouly

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Françoise Mouly (b. 1955) is a Paris-born French artist and designer best known for her work with RAW, a showcase publication for cutting edge comic art, and as art editor of The New Yorker, a position she has held since 1993.

She is married to Art Spiegelman (author of Maus, in which she makes brief appearances) and, with him, cofounded RAW magazine, which she published and co-edited from 1980 to 1991. Starting in 1977, she published and edited the Streets of Soho and Tribeca Map and Guide, until she sold it in 1991. In 2000, she edited a collection of New Yorker cover art published to commemorate the magazine's 75th anniversary. In 2005, she curated an exhibit of New Yorker Covers for the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts. In the fall of 2007, she co-curated, with Dodie Kazenjian, an exhibit of paintings and drawings on the theme of Hansel and Gretel, at Gallery Met in Lincoln Center.

In 2000, she founded a Raw Junior division which published Little Lit, anthologies of comics for children. She is currently launching a new series of hardcover comics for beginning readers, the TOON Books. The first TOON Book, Benny and Penny, by Geoffrey Hayes, will be released in April '08.

Mouly appears in the 1988 documentary film, Comic Book Confidential. She lives in downtown Manhattan with Spiegelman and their two children, Nadja and Dashiell.


Contents

[edit] RAW Magazine

Volume 1

  • #1 (July 1980) - "The Graphix Magazine of Postponed Suicides"
  • #2 (December 1980) - "The Graphix Magazine for Damned Intellectuals"
  • #3 (July 1981) - "The Graphix Magazine That Lost Its Faith in Nihilism"
  • #4 (March 1982) - "The Graphix Magazine for Your Bomb Shelter's Coffee Table"
  • #5 (March 1983) - "The Graphix Magazine of Abstract Depressionism"
  • #6 (May 1984) - "The Graphix Magazine That Overestimates the Taste of the American Public"
  • #7 (May 1985) - "The Torn-Again Graphix Magazine"
  • #8 (September 1986) - "The Graphic Aspirin for War Fever"

Volume 2

  • #1 (1989) - "Open Wounds from the Cutting Edge of Commix"
  • #2 (1990) - "Required Reading for the Post-Literate"
  • #3 (1991) - "High Culture for Lowbrows"

[edit] RAW One-Shots and RAW Books

[edit] Covering The New Yorker

Abbeville Press, 2000

[edit] RAW Junior Books/Little Lit

  • Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies, 2000
  • Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids, 2001
  • Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night, 2003
  • Big Fat Little Lit, 2006

[edit] TOON Books

To be released in Spring 2008 (see TOON-Books.com)

[edit] External links

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