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Françoise Mouly joined The New Yorker as art editor in April,1993.
She founded Raw Books & Graphics in 1977 and for fifteen years published artists’ monographs and the annual “Streets of Soho and Tribeca Map & Guide.” Ms. Mouly was the founder, publisher, designer, and co-editor along with her husband, cartoonist Art Spiegelman, of the pioneering avant-garde comics anthology “RAW,” which launched in 1980.
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RAW first brought acclaim to artists such as Charles Burns, Sue Coe, Gary Panter, Chris Ware, Lorenzo Mattotti, Joost Swarte, Xavier Mariscal, and many others. It is also the magazine where “Maus,” Mr. Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book on the Holocaust, was first published. From 1987 to 1995, Ms. Mouly edited and designed books for Pantheon and Penguin Books.
Responsible for about 800 covers over her past sixteen years at The New Yorker, Ms. Mouly has in addition lectured on and written extensively about New Yorker covers. In 2000, she published “Covering The New Yorker: Cutting-Edge Covers from a Literary Institution.” Ms. Mouly guest-curated exhibits at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Rome, at the Wilhelm-Busch Museum in Hanover, as well as curating The Art of The New Yorker: Eighty Years in the Vanguard, at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Ma in 2005. The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) chose two of Ms. Mouly’s covers as among the “top 40 most highly recognized, memorable, influential, compelling and iconic magazine covers of the past forty years. “ For the three years since the award was instituted, Ms. Mouly’s work received the honor of being ASME’s “best cover of the year.”
In 2000, Ms. Mouly launched a RAW Junior division, publishing books of comics for kids by star writers, children's book artists and cartoonists such as Maurice Sendak, Paul Auster, Ian Falconer, David Sedaris, Jules Feiffer, Lemony Snicket, Gahan Wilson, and Neil Gaiman. The LITTLE LIT books have been New York Times bestsellers, and a paperback anthology, BIG FAT LITTLE LIT, was published in 2006. In the spring of 2008, Ms. Mouly launched TOON Books, her own imprint of hardcover comics for emerging readers, which received universal praise for their innovative approach. In the first year of the new publishing house, every one of the six TOON Books garnered an unprecedented amount of awards and honors, including Stinky by Eleanor Davis being chosen as an Honor book to the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award by the American Association of Librarians (see www.TOON-Books.com for other awards.)
Born in Paris, Françoise Mouly studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, and moved to New York in 1974. In 2001, Ms. Mouly was named chevalier in the order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. She and her husband live in Manhattan.
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