Françoise Mouly, currently a book publisher and the
art editor of the New Yorker, in 1974
left Paris for the U.S. as a teenager on her own.
Jeet Heer, In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly’s
Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (Toronto: Coach House Books,
2013), pp. 25-6.
‘Before I left, my
mother said to be really careful when I took a cab because in New York, because when a cab stops at a red light,
bandits open the door and cut off your hands with a machete to steal your
rings.’ Mouly laughs about it now – both at the fear-mongering image and at the
notion that she could afford a cab anyway.
