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Françoise Mouly: No House Style

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Sarah Shatz: Françoise Mouly

It’s Nice That has a great interview with the remarkable Françoise Mouly, co-founder of comics anthology Raw, editorial director of TOON Books, and, of course, art editor at The New Yorker:

“One of the things we had at Raw which I have tried to keep is not having a house style, it doesn’t all look alike. Raw really was the sum of its parts but you can’t say that Raw magazine was Joost Swarte or Charles Burns or Sue Coe.

“At The New Yorker when I came in there was a house style, a nice cat-on-the-windowsill type watercolour and you could look at the covers and see the common denominator. I have tried to never let it settle into, ‘Oh that’s a New Yorker cover’ except in the approach.”

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Tom Gauld’s Suitcase

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Tom Gauld for The New Yorker.1

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Joost Swarte’s “Summer Adventures”

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“Cartooning has an edge on all other media. You don’t need anything else such as canvas and paint, or camera and actors: the road to expression is only a sheet of paper and a pencil away.”

A new Joost Swarte cover for The New Yorker.

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Novelists

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Tom Gauld for The New Yorker.

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This Year’s Hot New Genres

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Tom Gauld.

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The Scientist’s Dilemma

In his latest cartoon for New Scientist magazine, Tom Gauld illustrates the temptations of science fiction:
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In related news, Drawn & Quarterly are going to publish Tom’s new book Mooncop next year. It looks amazing:

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Extreme Etymology with Tom Gauld

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Tom Gauld.

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Rise of the Robots

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Writing at the MIT Technology Review, David Rotman looks at the impact of automation and digital technology on jobs with reference to a number of recent books related to the subject including Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford, The Great Divide by Joseph Stiglitz, and The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. But if you find that all too depressing to contemplate — and who doesn’t? — you can at least enjoy the wonderful Joost Swarte illustrations that accompany article …

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Henrietta’s Reading Adventures

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The New Yorker has posted a lovely series of cartoons about reading by Argentinian cartoonist Liniers. Henrietta — along with her cat Fellini and teddy bear Mandlebaum — is a regular character from Liniers newspaper comic strip Macanudo.

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Two collections of Liniers’ Macanudo strip are available in English from Enchanted Lion Books, with third one available this fall. There is also a new book featuring Henrietta coming from TOON Books in September.

(via Pickle Me This)

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The Expensive Notebook Company

I know it’s the second Tom Gauld cartoon I’ve posted today, but this one for The New Yorker is magnificent:

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All Characters Wait Here

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Mr. Tom Gauld

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Who Writes Novels?

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Tom Gauld for The New Yorker.

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