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 Yvan Alagbé, Paul Auster, Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Roz Chast, Liana Finck, Brooke Gladstone, Chip Kidd, Scott McCloud, Stephin Merritt, Ben Passmore, Joe Sacco, Chris Ware and many others. He has written about comics for venues including Publishers Weekly, The Paris Review, Print Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Brooklyn Rail, The Comics Journal, and others.
He worked as an assistant to Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist 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.
ONLINE TALKS
| Avant-Garde Histories of Comics 1945-1970 | Avant-Garde Histories of Comics 1970-1990 |
SELECTED WRITING
"Dash Shaw on Cryptozoo" (Screen Slate)
"Trenton Doyle Hancock" (BOMB Magazine)
"The Many Reincarnations of Kim Deitch" (The Paris Review)
"Ilan Manouach: Defamiliarizing Comics" (World Literature Today)
"Why Comics Are More Important Than Ever" (The Huffington Post)
"The Death-Ray" (The Brooklyn Rail)
A Note on the Conclusion of The Best American Comics Series (on-panel.com)
SELECTED INTERVIEWS
Communication Arts magazine
Publishers Weekly "More to Come" podcast
Paste Magazine
The Comics Reporter
CV
UPCOMING & RECENT EVENTS
January 19, 2024
"Comics: A User's Guide" public lecture
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
January 11, 2024
"Made in New York" exhibition opening
The Society of Illustrators
New York, NY
May 23, 2023
U.S. Book Show
New York, NY
January 26-29, 2023
Festival International de la Bande Dessinée
Angoulême, France
December 2, 2022
"On the Poverty of Student Life"
Presented by Anna O'Meara with Bill Kartalopoulos and McKenzie Wark
Strike School, The New School Part-Time Faculty Union
November 29, 2022
Breakdowns: In conversation with Art Spiegelman
Wisconsin Book Fair
November 10, 2022
A Tribute to Diane Noomin
The School of Visual Arts, NYC
October 4, 2022
"Avant-Garde Histories of Comics: 1970-1990"
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium
September 9-11, 2022
BD Comic Strip Festival
Brussels, Belgium
April 2-3, 2022
MoCCA Arts Festival
Metropolitan Pavillion, NYC
March 17-20, 2022
Festival International de la Bande Dessinée
Angoulême, France
September 28, 2021
"Avant-Garde Histories of Comics: 1945-1970"
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium
August 19, 2021
Rockaway Film Festival
Post-screening Q&A with Dash Shaw
Arverne Cinema
Queens, NY
July 8, 2021
Q&A with Dave McKean
The Society of Illustrators
January 31 - February 2, 2020
Festival International de la Bande Dessinée
Angoulême, France
November 22-24, 2019
Miami Book Fair
Miami, FL
October 1, 2019
Strand Books
New York, NY
September 24-29, 2019
Formula Bula
Paris, France
June 22-23, 2019
ALA Annual
Washington, DC
April 9-14, 2019
Fumetto Comics Festival
Lucerne, Switzerland
April 6-7, 2019
MoCCA Arts Festival
New York, NY
November 27, 2018
Saul Steinberg panel with Liana Finck, Françoise Mouly & Joel Smith
Powerhouse Arena
New York, NY
October 3, 2018
Strand Books
New York, NY
September 22, 2018
New York Art Book Fair
New York, NY
April 14-16, 2018
Fumetto Comics Festival
Lucerne, Switzerland
April 7-8, 2018
MoCCA Arts Festival
New York, NY
January 4, 2018
2018 MLA Annual Convention
New York, NY
November 17-19, 2017
Festival BD Colomiers
Colomiers, France
October 4, 2017
Strand Books
New York, NY
September 23-24, 2017
Boomfest
St. Petersburg, Russia
June 25-26, 2017
Fanzines! Festival
Paris, France
April 7-9, 2017
Comicdom Comics Festival
Athens, Greece
April 1-2, 2017
MoCCA Arts Festival
New York, NY
November 18-20, 2016
Miami Book Fair International
Miami, FL
October 29, 2016
Clinton Book Shop
Clinton, NJ
October 9, 2016
New York Comic-Con
"Jaffee & Roth talk Kurtzman and Playboy's Trump Magazine"
The Javits Center
New York, NY
October 5, 2016
Best American Comics Panel at the Strand
with Roz Chast, Liana Finck, Anne Emond and Char Esmé
Strand Books
New York, NY
September 12, 2016
Equinoxes: in conversation with Gabrielle Bell and Cyril Pedrosa
Albertine Books
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy
New York, NY
April 14-16, 2016
ICAF
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
April 2-3, 2016
MoCCA Arts Festival
Metropolitan West
New York, NY
November 20-22, 2015
Miami Book Fair International
Miami, FL
November 5, 2015
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium
New York, NY
October 16, 2015
Best American Comics 2015 panel
Quimby's
Chicago, IL
October 6, 2015
Best American Comics 2015 Book Launch
Strand Book Store
New York, NY
September 24, 2015
American Book Review Reading Series
University of Houston-Victoria
Victoria, TX
September 19-20, 2015
SPX: The Small Press Expo
Bethesda, MD
August 8-9, 2015
Autoptic
Minneapolis, MN
May 20, 2015
Jean-Christophe Menu:
Independent Publishing as Art
Albertine, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy
New York, NY
April 16, 2015
Industry Day
The Center for Cartoon Studies
White River Junction, VT
April 10 - 12, 2015
MoCCA Arts Festival
Center 548
New York, NY
January 29 - February 1, 2015
Festival International de la Bande Dessinée
Angoulême, France
November 21-23, 2014
Miami Book Fair International
Miami, FL
November 18, 2014
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium with Hanneriina Moisseinen
Parsons The New School for Design
New York, NY
November 13-15, 2014
International Comic Arts Forum
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
October 11, 2014
Discussing the Essential Kurtzman:
Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book
New York Comic-Con
The Javits Center
New York, NY
5:15 pm
October 8, 2014
Best American Comics 2014 Book Release
The Strand
New York, NY
7pm
