Esther Claudio is a PhD student at the Spanish and Portuguese department of UCLA. She organized the International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels in Madrid (November 9-12, 2011) and is co-editor of On the Edge of the Panel: Essays on Comics Criticism (2015). She was founder and editor for the comicsgrid.com and she is now editor of the academic journal Mester. She is interested in experimental graphic novels, specifically in interactive and non-linear reading, fragmentariness, urban narratives, and borders. Some of the artists she includes in her research are Chris Ware, David Mazzuchelli, and Brecht Evens, as well as Spanish artists Paco Roca and Miguelanxo Prado.