Christopher Sperandio is a comic book and public artist who teaches painting and drawing at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is the creator and executive producer of ARTSTAR, a reality television series based in the New York art world, airing internationally and in the United States on GalleryHD (part of the VOOM Network), and he is a founding member of KartoonKings, a media company engaged in the production of comic books, animations, and films. He holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of Illinois-Chicago.