Mouly Quotes

#1. The art editor in charge of the covers at the 'New Yorker' is Francoise Mouly. She's very familiar with the eccentricities and personalities of cartoonists, so working with her is very easy.

Adrian Tomine

#2. The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Carrie Chapman Catt

#3. 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.

Francoise Mouly

#4. Steel toes tend to bolster a girl's confidence in her ability to kick some serious ass.

Jennifer Estep

#5. 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.

Francoise Mouly

#6. I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Ray Bradbury

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

Francoise Mouly

#8. You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Luigi Pirandello

#9. Comics are a gateway into literature.

Francoise Mouly

#10. Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.

John Strachan

#11. A lie was an admission of weakness, evidence that you needed to fear the target of your dishonesty.

Daniel Polansky

#12. I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.

Melissa Sagemiller

#13. 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.

Francoise Mouly

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

Francoise Mouly

#15. I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.

Charles Bukowski

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

Francoise Mouly

#17. Only an excellent fabric can originate an excellent fashion

Nino Cerruti

#18. The world had turned to madness, and it was tainted red.

C.M. Gray

#19. 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.

Francoise Mouly

#20. 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.

Francoise Mouly