Bill Kartalopoulos: "Making Comics with Poets: Joe Brainard's C Comics"
Bill Kartalopoulos is an internationally recognized comics critic, educator, curator, and editor. He served as the series editor for the #1 New York Times–bestselling Best American Comics series for six annual volumes, beginning in 2014. He is a lecturer at the WashU Sam Fox School and teaches courses about comics at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Parsons and at the School of Visual Arts. He has curated exhibits about comics across North America and in Greece, Switzerland, and France, and serves as the programming director for the MoCCA Arts Festival in New York. He is currently writing a history of American comics, forthcoming from Princeton University Press.