Grant Snider facts for kids

Grant Snider is a talented American artist. He is known for his funny cartoons and comic strips. He also writes books for both adults and children. Besides being an artist, he is also an orthodontist, which is a type of dentist who straightens teeth.

Grant Snider's Early Life and Education

Grant Snider grew up in Derby, Kansas. He has a twin brother named Gavin, who is also an illustrator. Grant went to the University of Kansas to study engineering. After that, he studied dentistry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

While he was in college, Grant drew comic strips for his school newspapers. These were the University Daily Kansan and The University News. His work was so good that he won a special award in 2008. It was called the College Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz Award. This award is named after Charles M. Schulz, who created the famous Peanuts comics.

Becoming a Cartoonist and Author

After college, Grant Snider continued his cartooning. In 2008, he drew a comic strip called Delayed Karma for the Kansas City Star newspaper. Then, in 2009, he started his own online comic series. It is called Incidental Comics. These comics often explore ideas about art, books, and how people create things.

Grant's comics have become very popular. They have been shown in big magazines like The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Magazine. He has also collected his comics into books. Two of his well-known comic collections are The Shape of Ideas, published in 2018, and I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf, released in 2020. The second book is all about the joy of reading and writing.

Besides his comics for adults, Grant Snider also writes children's picture books. He wrote What Color is Night in 2019. He also wrote What Sound is Morning in 2020. These books help young readers explore different concepts through stories and pictures.