Françoise Mouly

Françoise Mouly (born 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 Stockbridge, 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 the Raw Junior division which published Little Lit, anthologies of comics for children. In April 2008, she launched Toon Books, a series of hardcover comics for children, beginning with "Benny and Penny" by Geoffrey Hayes.

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

"Raw"

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"

"Raw" one-shots and Raw Books

* "Agony" by Mark Beyer
* "Big Baby" by Charles Burns
* "Hard-Boiled Defective Stories" by Charles Burns
* "X" by Sue Coe
* "Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay" by Ben Katchor
* "Jack Survives" by Jerry Moriarty
* "Invasion of the Elvis Zombies" by Gary Panter
* "Jimbo" by Gary Panter
* "How to Commit Suicide in South Africa" by Holly Metz and Sue Coe

"Covering The New Yorker"

Abbeville Press, 2000

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

Toon Books

Little Lit describes Toon Books as "the first high-quality comics designed for children ages four and up. Each book in the collection is just right for reading to the youngest but, perhaps most remarkable, this is the first collection ever designed to offer newly-emerging readers comics they can read themselves. Each Toon Book has been vetted by educators to ensure that the language and the narratives will nurture young minds."

External links

* [http://www.toon-books.com/ Toon Books]
* [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6503768.html?industryid=47139/ "Publishers Weekly": Calvin Reid on Mouly]
* [http://www.indyworld.com/indy/ Interview with Mouly]
* [http://www.little-lit.com/ Little Lit]
* [http://www.newyorker.com "The New Yorker"]
* [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780789206572&displayonly=EXC&z=y#EXC Introduction to "Covering The New Yorker"]
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* [http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/11/05/slideshow_071105_hansel/ Hansel and Gretel exhibit]