Françoise Mouly
Françoise Mouly · Converts to Judaism
Art editor of The New Yorker since 1993 and co-founder, with Art Spiegelman, of the RAW magazine that first serialised 'Maus'; converted to Judaism
24 octobre 1955, Paris, France
France et États-Unis
Françoise Mouly is recognized among Jewish contributors to Converts to Judaism — Art editor of The New Yorker since 1993 and co-founder, with Art Spiegelman, of the RAW magazine that first serialised 'Maus'; converted to Judaism
Origins and early life
Françoise Mouly grew up in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, the daughter of a plastic surgeon who expected her to follow him into medicine; she studied architecture instead, and moved to New York.
Work and career
Reading American comics to practise her English, she came across a magazine co-published by the cartoonist Art Spiegelman; they married in 1977, and again after she converted to Judaism. In 1980 the two founded Raw, the comics and graphics magazine they edited until 1991 and in which Spiegelman's Maus was first serialised; through Raw Books and later Toon Books, Mouly published new and foreign cartoonists and pushed comics towards being taken seriously as an art form and used as a tool for learning to read.
She has been art editor of The New Yorker since 1993, where she commissions the magazine's covers. France made her a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2001 and a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2011.
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Art editor of The New Yorker since 1993 and co-founder, with Art Spiegelman, of the RAW magazine that first serialised 'Maus'; converted to Judaism
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