Françoise Mouly has been the art editor of The New Yorker since 1993. Born in Paris, she studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts before moving to New York in 1974. Ms. Mouly has served as the publisher, designer, and co-editor—with her husband, Art Spiegelman—of the avant-garde comics anthology Raw, which originated in 1980. They recently launched Little Lit, an annual book of comics for kids by contemporary children’s book artists and cartoonists.

Lawrence Weschler, who has been writing for The New Yorker since 1981, is the author of several books, including Boggs: A Comedy of Values, Calamities of Exile, and Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders.