Michael Kasper Editor, Author & Translator

Jan Baetens (PhD, University of Leuven) is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Leuven, where he is teaching and researching on word and image relationships in so-called minor genres. His most recent book is The Graphic Novel: An Introduction (2014), co-authored with Hugo Frey. A published poet, in 2007 he received the triennial prize for poetry of Francophone Belgium for his collection Cent fois sur le métier.
Michael Kasper is a retired academic librarian and a longtime book artist and translator. He has translated works from French, German, and Polish. Open-Book (2010) is his tenth collection of illustrated texts since the early 1970s.