Olivia Rose Roberts is a Canadian comic and pop artist from Kimberley, British Columbia. Born in Fernie, she graduated from Fernie Secondary School in 2016 and enrolled at Camosun College in Victoria in September of that same year. At Camosun College, she took the Comics and Graphic Novels
Program under comic veterans Ken and Joan Steacy and graduated with the program’s certificate in
2017.
After a couple of years doing comics gigs for Frisson Comics and Hell-Cat Press, Olivia enrolled in the Bachelor of Fine Arts at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in 2020. While at TRU, she experimented with combining elements and motifs associated towards comic art with fine art
disciplines such as painting and drawing techniques. This resulted in Olivia applying and receiving the Undergrad Research Experience Award Program Scholarship in 2022 for her comic art thesis. The disciplines Olivia took during the BFA included drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and video
making/editing. Olivia would graduate from TRU in 2025 with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts.
Since graduating, Olivia has been offering caricature portraits at live events such as Kimberley First Saturdays/Summer Days, Christmas Markets, Canada Day, and participating in exhibitions at Centre 64. She has continued working on comics and other art pieces, including creating works that are reminiscent of traditional cel animation and exploring pin-up art.
Several motifs of pop culture from comic and film influences are incorporated into Olivia’s art, both as an aesthetic choice and works that explore commentary like censorship and female expression.
Other interests include retro media, physical media, animation, manga, and roller derby, much of which is incorporated into her body of work. Olivia is primarily a 2D traditional artist who prefers to work using physical and raw materials such as paper, canvas, inks and paints and other various wet and dry mediums.