Keynote Conversation
5:00 pm, Gartner Auditorium

Françoise Mouly is art editor of The New Yorker where she has been responsible for over 1,000 covers. She is also founder and coeditor (with collaborator and spouse Art Spiegelman) of the groundbreaking comics anthology RAW; the New York Times-bestselling Little Lit series; and The TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics. Mouly’s recent books include Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See; Postcards from the New Yorker: One Hundred Covers from Ten Decades; and The Best American Comics 2012. She has won numerous publication awards and lectures and curates exhibitions internationally. The French Ministry of Culture and Communication named her Chevalier in the order of Arts and Letters in 2001 and awarded her the nation’s highest honor, the Legion of Honneur, in 2011. Mouly’s first biography, In Love with Art, was published in 2013.