Francoise Mouly

The Origins of RAW and a Lost Lynch is Discovered

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Lost Jay Lynch Painting Featured on Roadside Antiques

The inaugural Cartoon Crossroads Columbus event (CXC), held mostly on the campus of Ohio State University in early October 2015, was a terrific time and one that gave historians of the field ample material to digest. In a piece for The Comics Journal I focused on the keynote event of CXC, a panel in which the co-founders of the influential RAW magazine– cartoonist Art Spiegelman and his wife, The New Yorker Art Editor Françoise Mouly–discussed the early days of the magazine with cartoonist Jeff Smith.

The column also looks at “lost” early painting by cartoonist Jay Lynch that was recently appraised on the PBS TV show Roadside Antiques:  

The Origins of RAW and a Lost Lynch is Discovered