Françoise Mouly
Art & Design Publisher | Transforming Comics and Visual Storytelling
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Françoise Mouly is the editorial and art director who transformed the world of comics and visual culture. As the publisher and co-founder of the acclaimed TOON Books imprint, she has brought groundbreaking graphic novels to a new generation of readers.
Mouly has also served as the art editor of The New Yorker for over 30 years, shaping the magazine's iconic cover illustrations. Her keynotes explore how visual narratives can communicate complex ideas and foster creative problem-solving across disciplines.
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The stories behind The New Yorker's iconic covers
Meet Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker's art director. For the past 24 years, she's helped decide what appears on the magazine's famous cover, from the black-on-black depiction of the Twin Towers the week after 9/11 to a recent, Russia-influenced riff on the magazine's mascot, Eustace Tilley. In this visual retrospective, Mouly considers how a simple drawing can cut through the torrent of images that we see every day and elegantly capture the feeling (and the sensibility) of a moment in time.
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