Frederick holds the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at UT Austin, where he is founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab and BIPOC PoP, and editor of Latinx Pop Magazine. He has published dozens of books, including the Eisner winning Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics, the bilingual children's titles The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie and Con Papa, and graphic novels including Pyroclast, Through Fences, and Labyrinths Borne.

 

"Similar to Professor X, who locates muties with his cerebro, I knew the whereabouts of Latinx comics creatives worldwide."

 

He is inducted into the National Cartoonists Society and the Texas Institute of Letters, and serves on the board of The Academy of American Poets. His next comic, Shakespeare Reimagined: A Latino Comix Remix Vol. 1, arrives from Arte Publico Press in spring 2027.