The Center for Cartoon Studies 2011 Commencement Ceremony
with guest speaker, Françoise Mouly, founder of RAW and TOON Books and art editor at The New Yorker
Saturday, May 14, 11 am
Northern Stage at the Briggs Opera House
White River Junction, Vermont
Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception immediately following, CCS Gallery, Colodny Building.
Free and open to the public. Thesis Exhibition runs Monday-Saturday 10am-2pm through Saturday, June 11.
Françoise Mouly joined The New Yorker as art editor in 1993. She has been the publisher and editorial director of TOON Books since its launch in 2008. Mouly founded Raw Books & Graphics in 1977 and was publisher for 15 years. Starting in 1980, Mouly was the founder, publisher and designer of the pioneering avant-garde comics anthology RAW, which she co-edited along with her husband, cartoonist Art Spiegelman. RAW first brought acclaim to artists such as Charles Burns, Sue Coe, Gary Panter, Chris Ware, Lorenzo Mattotti, Joost Swarte, Xavier Mariscal, and many others. It is also the magazine where Maus, Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book on the Holocaust, was first published.
Tags: Art Spiegelman, Cartoon Studies, Commencement, drawing, Francoise, Maus, Mouly, RAW, The New Yorker, TOON Books