Keiler Roberts
In her work, Roberts explores her experience on topics such as motherhood, teaching, mental disorders, and her life with multiple sclerosis 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.
Keiler Roberts
- Born
- 1978
- Birthplace
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
- Nationality
- American
- Occupation
- cartoonist · comics writer
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In her work, Roberts explores her experience on topics such as motherhood, teaching, mental disorders, and her life with multiple sclerosis 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.
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She was a professor of comics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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• Born — 1978 • Birthplace — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. • Nationality — American • Area — Cartoonist
Biography
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Roberts was born in Milwaukee in 1978, the youngest of four children, but grew up in Sun Prairie, just outside Madison, both in Wisconsin. In high school, Roberts took many art classes and later studied painting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000) and Northwestern University (2002). 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. 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. Roberts is married to Scott Roberts, also an artist, with whom she has a daughter.
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1978
Keiler Roberts born at Milwaukee.
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Awards and honors
• 2019 Slate's Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of 2018, selected by The Slate Book Review and The Center for Cartoon Studies • 2018 nomination for 3Arts Award • 2017 Ignatz Award nomination - Outstanding Comic for Sunburning • 2016 Ignatz Award - Outstanding Series for Powdered Milk • 2015 Special guest, CAKE - Chicago Alternative Comics Expo • 2014, 2015 The Best American Comics 2014, Notables List • 2014 Ignatz Award nomination in two categories - Outstanding Series and Promising New Talent • 2014 Special guest, Chicago Zine Fest • 2013 Ignatz Award nomination - Best Minicomic • 2000 Northwestern University Fellowship
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