Victoria Roberts

Victoria Roberts is a cartoonist and performer. A staff cartoonist for The New Yorker since 1988, Roberts' work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, and many other magazines and newspapers. She illustrates the Q&A weekly science question in The New York Times. She was called Australia's most successful female cartoonist by The Age. In her own words, she likes "to draw fat little ladies with hearing aids, weird infants with glasses, and domestic scenes; I see things as people at home see them". Roberts has written and/or illustrated over 20 books, and received several grants, awards, and residencies, including an Australian Bicentennial grant for Australia Felix, a cartoon history of Australia published by Chatto & Windus.

Roberts has also worked in animation. Credits include "Goodbye Sally Goldstein" and "The Maitland and Morpeth Quartet", and also in radio, recording "Divinity Fudge" for WNYC, and "The Life of Truman Capote” for ABC Radio Australia.

Born in Manhattan, Roberts grew up in Mexico City and Sydney. She lives in New York City and Mexico.