The New Yorker Celebrates 100 Years

New York Times

26-02-2025

On Tuesday evening, Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly were sitting at a sidewalk table outside Jean's, a chic night spot in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. Nearby, writers, critics and cartoonists streamed past a black rope and a bouncer to attend The New Yorker's 100th anniversary party.
Mr. Spiegelman, the graphic novelist who has been a contributor to the publication since 1992, puffed on a slender e-cigarette. Ms. Mouly, the magazine's longtime art editor, took in the scene. The two have been married almost 50 years.
'The New Yorker is the last of its kind standing, and tonight we're celebrating that,' Mr. Spiegelman said. 'I still remember meeting the great writer Joseph Mitchell in the magazine's hallway. I felt like I was in the presence of a monument.'
Ms. Mouly, who recently curated a centennial exhibit of the magazine's covers for L'Alliance New York, a French cultural center, also reflected on the big night. Image The cartoonist Art Spiegelman, left, and the art editor Françoise Mouly, longtime New Yorker colleagues (and longtime husband and wife), arrived at the party. Credit... Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times Jelani Cobb, a New Yorker staff writer and the dean of Columbia Journalism School. Credit... Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times M. Gessen, a former staff writer at The New Yorker who is now an Opinion writer for The New York Times. Credit... Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times
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