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FRANCOISE 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 700 covers over her past fifteen years at The New Yorker, Ms. Mouly has lectured on and written extensively about New Yorker covers throughout history. To commemorate the magazine’s 75th Anniversary, Ms. Mouly curated an exhibit of original cover art at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Rome, and at the Wilhelm-Busch Museum in Hanover, Germany. In 2000, Abbeville Press published Ms. Mouly’s book, Covering The New Yorker: Cutting-Edge Covers from a Literary Institution, a compilation of over 300 timeless covers. To celebrate the magazine’s 80th Anniversary, Ms. Mouly guest-curated “The Art of The New Yorker: Eighty Years in the Vanguard”, at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Ma. In 2005, ASME (American Society of Magazine Editors) 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.” In 2006, and again in 2007, Ms. Mouly’s work was awarded 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: LITTLE LIT: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies (2000), and LITTLE LIT: Strange Stories for Strange Kids(2001) and LITTLE LIT: It Was a Dark and Silly Night (2003) have been New York Times bestsellers. In the fall of 2006, Puffin Books released BIG FAT LITTLE LIT, a paperback anthology. In the spring of 2008, Ms. Mouly launched TOON BOOKS, her own imprint of hardcover comics for emerging readers.
Born in Paris, Francoise 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 with their two children.
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