| Keiler Roberts | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1978 (age 46–47) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Keiler Roberts (born 1978) is an American comics artist from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. [1] In her work, Roberts explores her experience on topics such as motherhood, teaching, mental disorders, and her life with multiple sclerosis [2] from an everyday point of view and with humor. She has been dedicating herself to creating comics since 2009, when her daughter was born, until today, when she combines it with her work as a teacher. She has received the Cartoonist Studio and Ignatz Awards. She was a professor of comics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Roberts was born in Milwaukee in 1978, the youngest of four children, but grew up in Sun Prairie, just outside Madison, both in Wisconsin. [1]
In high school, Roberts took many art classes and later studied painting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000) and Northwestern University (2002). [3] She later dedicated herself to teaching, at DePaul University (2005–2018), in Chicago, Illinois, in introductory drawing and figure drawing classes and the Art Institute of Chicago (2013–2021), in comics classes. [1] [3] Roberts already had autobiographical content on her blog, and intended to mix it with images in some way, but she didn't start comics until after a course with Aaron Renier at DePaul University. [4] [5]
Roberts is married to Scott Roberts, also an artist, with whom she has a daughter named Finn. [1]
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Original Sunburning, 2017, Toronto: Koyama Press) [7]