Françoise Mouly has been the art director of The New Yorker for more than 30 years. During that time, the magazine has depicted the world and its changes through covers that present stories replete with discourse and creative audacity. Born in Paris but forged artistically in the New York underground, Mouly opened The New Yorker to the avant-garde authors who appeared in the comics magazine she co-directed with Art Spiegelman, the legendary and influential Raw, but also to unique, groundbreaking cartoonists from the rest of the world, making it an absolute benchmark in the world of illustration. Françoise Mouly is, without a doubt, an essential figure in shifting the cultural perception of comics and in modernizing an institution so closely identified with tradition as The New Yorker. 

Javier Mariscal, Ana Juan, Sergio García, and Luci Guitérrez, world-class illustrators who have created covers for The New Yorker under Mouly’s attentive and exacting direction, talk with her at the CCCB. A conversation on the creative process behind the most iconic covers in the English-speaking world, moderated by the cultural journalist Xavi Serra.