Preparing to Bite
$47.71
- Paperback
164 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2025
Summary
Achingly human auto-bio comics that extract big laughs from the small moments.
Cartoonist Keiler Roberts quit making comics. Or did she? Preparing to Bite, her latest collection of all-new, one-page comics is a return to perfect form. Roberts skewers innocuous aspects of everyday life and dissects them for their unique absurdity: from cooking meals, to keeping doctors’ appointments, to owning pets, and even navigating now-inescapable zoom calls. These vignettes portray a woma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770467743 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770467742 |
| Author: | Keiler Roberts |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 164 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 168mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“Roberts has the amazing ability to slow down time and focus on the smallest of moments.” —NPR
“I just cannot stop laughing when I read her comics because I feel like she has peered deep into my soul and [into] the absurdity of parenting life.” —Slate
“Roberts’s slightly warped perspective hilariously and poignantly reflects back to readers the transient absurdity of domestic life.” —Publishers Weekly
“Her work gives off a kind of radical stillness. It always lowers my blood pressure… Keiler Roberts is my new hero.” —The Chicago Tribune
“[Keiler Roberts’s] comics… are fairly existentialist. They feel like part of a mindfulness practice, exercised to keep the creator’s mind on the world and her body and brain involved. If you slow down while reading them, they can do the same for you.” —The Comics Journal
Keiler Roberts
Keiler Roberts makes autobiographical comics. She is the recipient of the Cartoonist Studio Prize and the Ignatz Award. She has taught comics at The School of The Art Institute in Chicago.
Early in her career, Roberts self-published Powdered Milk, Happy Happy Baby Baby, and Miseryland. Koyama Press published Chlorine Gardens, Rat Time, and Sunburning, which was translated into Spanish as Isolada.
The Joy of Quitting is her second book for Drawn & Quarterly, following My Begging Chart, which was translated into Spanish as Mi Tabla De Soplicas.
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