Dealing with pregnancy, child-rearing, art-making, mental illness, and an MS diagnosis, Chlorine Gardens sounds heavy, but Keiler Roberts presents life’s darker moments with such deft drollness that her comics memoirs are a pleasure to read. 

KEILER ROBERTS is a Chicago-based artist whose autobiographical comic series Powdered Milk has received an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series and was included in The Best American Comics 2016 Her first book with Koyama Press, Sunburning, was published in 2017.