Bill Kartalopoulos is a Brooklyn-based comics critic, educator, curator and editor. He is the Series Editor for the Best American Comics series published annually by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He currently teaches classes about graphic novels at Parsons The New School for Design and comics history in the MFA Visual Narrative program at SVA.A frequent public speaker and event organizer, Kartalopoulos is widely recognizing for raising the level of discourse at public events dedicated to comics. He is the programming director for the MoCCA Arts Festival, co-founded the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, which ran for four years before concluding in 2012, and worked for nine years as the programming coordinator for SPX: The Small Press Expo. He has led public conversations with Chris Ware, Paul Auster, Lynda Barry, Joe Sacco, Charles Burns, Brooke Gladstone, Chip Kidd, Scott McCloud, Stephin Merritt, and many others. He has written about comics for venues including Publishers Weekly, Print Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Brooklyn Rail, World Literature Today, American Book Review, The Comics Journal, Collection Revue, Kaboom, Artenol, and others.He worked as an assistant to Art Spiegelman for several years and served as a member of the Executive Committee for the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF). He is the publisher/editor of the small, occasional avant-garde comics publishing imprint Rebus Books. He previously published the comics newsblog EGON and edited Indy Magazine, which was the first online publication to be nominated for Eisner and Harvey Awards. He holds a Bachelors Degree in History from Dartmouth College and a Masters Degree in Media Studies from The New School. He is currently writing a book about comics, to be published by Princeton University Press.