Comic book reading club by author: Keiler Roberts

January 16, 2025 | 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Free upon registration

Meeting on Isolated de Boar Roberts

The author’s comic book reading club is a free, monthly cultural activity in which a stable group of people will meet for one Thursday afternoon a month to jointly analyze a comic that we have read, on our own, in the previous weeks.

This club intends to better understand the work of national and international authors, so we will intersperse works by authors from different origins. The themes and literary subgenres of the selected comics will be very diverse and will cover different sensibilities, themes, formats, interests…

The final objective is to spend an afternoon talking in depth and in a participatory and relaxed way about a comic by a national or international author. There will be participants in this club for whom this is their first contact with the world of comics, there will also be other people who have been enjoying this type of work for years: this will be a form of mutual learning and enjoyment of the work from different perspectives.

We will spend relaxed and fun afternoons around different works selected by Juan Naranjo. We will share, debate, listen to each other and enjoy the art of comics.

This is a comic about illness and loss, about motherhood and creativity (and the problems that arise when trying to combine them), about bipolar disorder and small everyday incidents… In short, a comic about the life of Keiler Roberts, who since 2009 has narrated his daily exploits without drama or major plot twists, but with a sense of humor so particular that it has become his hallmark. Isolated It is a small hole in the wall through which the author allows us to spy on her daily life, although on many occasions we feel so identified with what she tells that it gives the sensation that we are observing our own life. Both his drawing style and way of narrating remind us of other great artists such as John Porcellino, Seth or Roz Chast.

Boar Roberts She is a creator of autobiographical comics. She has been awarded the Cartoonist Studio Award and the Ignatz Award. She was a comics professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In the beginning, he self-published Powdered Milk, Happy Happy Baby Baby y Miseryland. In Koyama Press he published Chlorine Gardens, Rat Time y Sunburningtranslated into Spanish as Isolated by Alpha Cómic, where he has also published My supplication tablehis first comic in the Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly.

Juan Naranjo (Málaga, 1983) is a literary translator, book club coordinator and author. Translates books from English and Italian for Spanish publishers. He is passionate about encouraging reading and believes that reading clubs are a way to enjoy an activity traditionally understood as solitary in community.