Francoise Mouly Quotes

#1. You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out.

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#2. The image by Barry Blitt of Barack Obama and Michelle in the White House with him dressed as a terrorist, her dressed as an Angela Davis character, a flag burning in the chimney, a portrait of Bin Laden on the wall is an image I'm extremely proud of.

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#3. Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal.

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#4. The reason I started to do comics for kids, the real reason is because it worked for me.

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#5. I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He was embarrassed about me seeing the comics at Forbidden Planet.

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#6. Comics are a gateway into literature.

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#7. I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.

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#8. When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to Art who was courting me by reading me Little Nemo and Krazy Kat by George Herriman. It was really very effective.

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#9. There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives.

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