Francoise 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. In April 2008, the respected critic Jeet Heer wrote on his blog, Sans Everything: "Françoise Mouly: Underappreciated and Essential. Is there anyone in the cartooning world who is more underrated than Françoise Mouly?" and went on to give an extensive list of Mouly's achievements. 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. From 1977–1979 Mouly was a freelance colorist for Marvel Comics, where she worked on such comics as Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Marvel Two-in-One, and Tomb of Dracula, as well as doing individual fill-ins on numerous other titles. Starting in 1977, Mouly published and edited the Streets of Soho and Tribeca Map and Guide, until she sold it in 1991. In 2000, Mouly 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.