Grant Snider is an American cartoonist, comic strip artist, writer and orthodontist.

Life and career

Snider grew up in

Derby, Kansas Derby is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States and the largest suburb of Wichita. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 25,625. History For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America were inhabited by Nativ ...

, with his twin brother, Gavin, also an illustrator. He studied engineering at the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

, and then dentistry at the

University of Missouri-Kansas City A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

. He drew strips for both college newspapers: the

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and The University News; for that work he won the Charles M. Schultz Award for Cartooning in 2008. Later that year he drew the strip ''Delayed Karma'' for the

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and in 2009 he launched his online ''Incidental Comics'', featuring strips about art, literature and the creative process. His strips have been featured in magazines such as

The New York Review of Books ''The New York Review of Books'' (or ''NYREV'' or ''NYRB'') is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of i ...

and

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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

External links

Official webpageIncidental ComicsInterview on Substack , covered by journalist or contributor Rishabh Chaddha
{{DEFAULTSORT:Snider, Grant Living people American cartoonists American children's book illustrators People from Derby, Kansas University of Missouri–Kansas City alumni Year of birth missing (living people)