Art Editor to The New Yorker, Francoise Mouly speaks a lot about the history of comics, where comics are now, and what comics are doing that change the country’s perception of the medium.

Watch the interview here.

This week she had all the blogs fighting over the scoop of The New Yorker’s 85th Anniversary variant covers.

She examines how her involvement in creating comics for adults has in turn taught her that in today’s culture, there aren’t quite enough comics for children. She continues the interview by recommending graphic novels to read that have made SEQA’s own must-reads, (ironically she doesn’t mention as many children’s comics as she does more mature reads).

She also explains the political covers that she edited for the New Yorker, including the New York Times “Most Memorable Image of the 2008 Campaign”, Barry Blitt’s illustration that had Barack and Michelle Obama in Terrorist outfits. It’s an informing interview that opens the mind of one of the most influential people to comics whose work is still relevant in the industry.

All the video clips can be seen on Big Think.