Grant Snider
{{short description|American cartoonist}}
Grant Snider is an American cartoonist, comic strip artist, writer and orthodontist.
Life and career
Snider grew up in Derby, Kansas, with his twin brother, Gavin, also an illustrator.{{Cite web|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-portrait-of-the-cartoonist-as-a-young-philosopher-an-interview-with-grant-snider/|title=A Portrait of the Cartoonist as a Young Philosopher: An Interview with Grant Snider|last=Snider|first=Jeffrey Kindley interviews Grant|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=16 July 2017 |access-date=2020-02-22}} He studied engineering at the University of Kansas, and then dentistry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He drew strips for both college newspapers: the University Daily Kansan and The University News; for that work he won the College Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz Award in 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kualumni.org/news/grant-snider-kids-book/|title=Cartoonist's latest project is picture of success|date=2019-12-02|website=KU Alumni Association|access-date=2020-02-22|archive-date=2020-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222175947/http://www.kualumni.org/news/grant-snider-kids-book/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/03/16/grant-snider-wins-charles-m-schulz-award/|title=Grant Snider wins Charles M. Schulz award|date=2009-03-16|website=The Daily Cartoonist|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-22}}
Later that year he drew the strip Delayed Karma for the Kansas City Star and in 2009 he launched his online Incidental Comics, featuring strips about art, literature and the creative process.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kcur.org/post/grant-snider-cartoonistorthodontist-able-conquer-self-doubt-single-pen|title=Grant Snider, Cartoonist/Orthodontist, Able To Conquer Self-Doubt With A Single Pen|last=Janovy|first=C. J.|website=www.kcur.org|date=6 November 2014 |language=en|access-date=2020-02-22}} His strips have been featured in magazines such as The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Magazine and compiled in two books: The Shape of Ideas (2018) and I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf (2020), the latter a collection of comics about the love of writing and reading.
Snider also is the author of children's picture books What Color is Night (2019) and What Sound is Morning (2020).
References
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External links
- [https://www.grantsnider.com Official webpage]
- [https://incidentalcomics.com Incidental Comics]
- [https://rishabh1406.substack.com/p/the-portrait-of-a-bookshelf-an-interview-with-grant-snider-a4efd43f1dc6 Interview on Substack , covered by journalist or contributor Rishabh Chaddha]
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Category:American comic strip cartoonists
Category:American comics writers
Category:American comics artists
Category:American children's writers
Category:American children's book illustrators
Category:21st-century American illustrators
Category:People from Derby, Kansas