The Story Behind The New Yorker’s 9/11 Cover

New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly recalls living through September 11 and creating the magazine's iconic black cover in its aftermath.

A moving first-hand account of how one of journalism's most iconic covers was born.

On September 11, 2001, Françoise Mouly, the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993, was walking to vote in the mayoral primaries with her husband, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, when a plane flew low overhead and struck

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