Notes by Francoise Mouly towards a letter to Gary Panter about a cover for RAW. I went to a talk last night, Rob Schrab moderating a talk with Wayne White and the director the upcoming White documentary, which I am looking forward to. White mentioned at one point, how finding RAW and the Comics Journal’s interview with Art Spiegelman got him to move to New York. Got me thinking about RAW, reading Bill Kartalopoulos’s oral history of RAW over my lunch break(which— I got linked through the Wayback Machine— hopefully that’s being preserved somewhere as it’s got a lot of archival material like the image to it). The first part is especially pleasant as it’s more Mouly’s story of her moving to New York City from France in the late 70’s. I liked this line: “it was to fight the prejudices against comics as toilet literature.” I just like “toilet literature.”
