![]() ![]() The initial line of titles received glowing reviews and multiple awards, prizes, and distinctions. ![]() ![]() As she had done for the avant-garde comics and graphics magazine RAW, or the kids comics anthology Little Lit, both of which she co-edited, or for the covers of The New Yorker, Mouly gathered an array of talent for Toon Books.Ģ008 saw the launch of eight titles, featuring star authors (such as Harry Bliss, Art Spiegelman or Jeff Smith), veteran children's book authors ( Geoffrey Hayes) as well as novice cartoonists ( Eleanor Davis, the author of Stinky, was still in art school when Mouly contacted her). Mimi Cracra, a comic-book character familiar to millions of French toddlers.Īfter proposing the Toon Books idea to major children's books publishers from 2004 to 2007, and being rejected because the proposed books didn't fit existing categories, Mouly returned to her roots as a self-publisher - she had founded her small press, RAW Books & Graphics, in 1977, and RAW Junior in 1999. In fact, one of the first Toon Books releases was Agnès Rosenstiehl's Silly Lilly, a.k.a. Appalled by the lack of appeal of the educational material, Mouly instead spent time with her child and armloads of French comic books. The concept for Toon Books came to Mouly when her son Dash was learning to read, and his first-grade teacher assigned him "easy readers". ![]()
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