Preparing to Bite

<p><b>Achingly human auto-bio comics that extract big laughs from the small moments<br><br></b>Cartoonist Keiler Roberts quit making comics. Or did she?<br><i><br>Preparing to Bite,</i> her latest collection of all-new, one-page comics is a return to perfectform. Roberts skewers innocuous aspects of everyday life and dissects them for theirunique absurdity: from cooking meals, to keeping doctors’ appointments, to owning pets,and even navigating now-inescapable zoom calls. These vignettes portray a woman inmiddle-age grappling with the realities of being a mother, a wife, a friend, a daughter, andlastly (perhaps even least of all), a practicing artist—all while dealing with the long-termeffects of a debilitating disease.<br><br>From page to page, Roberts jumps from moment to moment, expertly using the comicsform as nobody else can while showing off what it can do that no other form can. <i>Preparingto Bite</i> captures the transient gestures of life in the modern age, both mundane and inane.</p>