Bill Kartalopoulos, October 4th, 2022

The 341st meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium held on Tuesday, October 4th, 2022 at 7pm EST. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. For more info: https://nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/

Bill Kartalopoulos on Avant-Garde Histories of Comics: 1970-1990

View Part 1 of Bill's history of avant-garde comics here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY5gCNSR9VE&t=1s

Kartalopoulos traces points of contact between comics and avant-garde art movements in the post-Pop period. Developments in photography, street art, performance, conceptual art, artists’ books, and serial art contributed to a range of narrative image-making projects across disciplines, often by artists of diverse identities whose stories had rarely been told.

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 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) series for six annual volumes, beginning in 2014. He 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 currently serves as the programming director for the MoCCA Arts Festival in New York, NY. He is currently writing a history of comics, forthcoming from Princeton University Press. For more information, please visit on-panel.com