Manuel Betancourt

Manuel Betancourt is a writer, film critic and a cultural reporter. His work has been featured in Film Comment, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, and GQ Style, among others. He is one of the co-authors of the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel series The Cardboard Kingdom (Knopf for Young Readers, 2018, 2021, 2023), as well as the sole author of Judy at Carnegie Hall (Bloomsbury Press, 2020), about the Grammy award-winning double album. His upcoming book, The Male Gazed: What Hunks, Heartthrobs and Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men comes out 5/30/2023.