Françoise Mouly: The stories behind The New Yorker's iconic covers
Françoise Mouly: Câu chuyện đằng sau những bức ảnh bìa độc đáo của tạp chi The New Yorker
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a somewhat staid institution
from its ivory tower
the right thing for me to do
by how an image can --
that we see every single day.
a social trend or a complex event
wouldn't be able to do --
and turn it into a cartoon.
drawn by Rea Irvin in 1925 --
through his monocle,
as the magazine had become known
and long reports,
had gotten lost along the way,
was seen as a haughty dandy,
of the roaring twenties.
that really captured the zeitgeist
not just how people dressed
to be alive in the '30s.
to be in the subway,
are approved by the editor,
not telling you what to think.
have to complete the picture.
on the left by Anita Kunz,
that are in your head.
just have to show people,
with what we were going through,
could capture this moment,
cartoonist Art Spiegelman,
that I was going to propose that,
going to do a black cover,
the silhouette of the Twin Towers,
that I learned in the process --
that say the most
that we published by Bob Staake
experience the emotions that we all feel
could publish was this,
on the week that everybody voted.
somebody would feel this --
was announced.
that was sent by Bob Staake again,
what's going to come next,
know how to move forward,
after Donald Trump's election
come to life week after week,
which one is my favorite,
is how different every image is,
and the diversity
Eustace Vladimirovich Tilley.
than a flabbergasted Donald Trump
how to control the butterfly effect,
that was drawn by Rae Irvin in 1925
about this moment
is essential to our democracy.
the sublime to the ridiculous
into the cultural dialogue.
at the center of that culture,
where I think they should be.
right now is a good cartoon.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Françoise Mouly - Art editorFrançoise Mouly is The New Yorker's longtime art editor.
Why you should listen
Françoise Mouly joined The New Yorker as art editor in April 1993. She has been responsible for more than 1,000 covers over her tenure at The New Yorker, many of which were chosen by The American Society of Magazine Editors as "best cover of the year."
Mouly is the publisher and editorial director of TOON Books, an imprint of comics and visual narratives for young readers. In 2017, Mouly began publishing RESIST!, a giveaway newspaper of comics and graphics, coedited with her daughter, writer Nadja Spiegelman.
Since 1980, Mouly has founded and co-edited (with collaborator and husband Art Spiegelman) the groundbreaking comics anthology RAW; the New York Times-bestselling Little Lit series; and the TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics. Born in Paris, Mouly studied architecture at the Beaux Arts before she moving to New York. Among her many awards, she has received France's highest honor, the Legion of Honneur and, in 2015, the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award for her work in education.
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