{"id":1685,"date":"2008-04-14T23:38:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T03:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/04\/14\/francoise-mouly-on-scholastic\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:26:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:26:17","slug":"francoise-mouly-on-scholastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Francoise Mouly on Scholastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got the most severe case of writer’s block at the moment, which is why posting has been so sporadic. Many apologies. I was going to churn out a linkblog post but I think I just tripped over the only thing that needs linking at the moment. I give you Chris Mautner’s interview with Raw and Toon Books founder Francoise Mouly<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Mautner: That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting considering how companies like Scholastic<\/a> now have their own comic book line.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mouly: Actually Scholastic is a case in point. I went to see them in 2003 and offered Toon Books to them. The range of what I was offering at the time also included Bone<\/a> <\/span>because I had talked to Jeff [Smith] about doing Toon Books and wanted to show [Scholastic] a comic that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perfect for the eight-nine year olds. And they had turned Bone <\/span>down as not something that they wanted to do. Then they looked at my proposal and the response came back, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beautiful. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll reconsider, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take Bone <\/span>because we know we can do something with that. But the rest, eh. Too much work.” So a lot of what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re seeing now is the direct result of the efforts we made.<\/p>\n

That interaction I must say was incredibly unpleasant because it also came with “Oh, and by the way you should ask Jeff Smith for a cut.” No thank you, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our friend. “If you really want to work for us,” says the head of Scholastic, “You could help us do the comic book version of Shrek 2.<\/span>” (laughs)<\/p>\n

Mautner: And of course you jumped at that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mouly: You have Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly in your office and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re begging to be in your employ so of course you find them the perfect thing. The comic book adaptation of the movie which is a sequel of an adaptation of a book by a cartoonist? Yes, of course, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to jump on that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s Gold, Jerry.<\/p>\n

Apologies in advance to my friends at Scholastic, but OMG.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got the most severe case of writer’s block at the moment, which is why posting has been so sporadic. Many apologies. I was going to churn out a linkblog post but I think I just tripped over the only thing that needs linking at the moment. I give you Chris Mautner’s interview with Raw … <\/p>\n

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