Grant Snider


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. 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.
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. 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 and I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf, 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 and What Sound is Morning.
Grant now lives in Wichita, Kansas, with his wife and children. He works a day job as an orthodontist. and his hobbies are cooking breakfast, reading, running, drawing, and redrawing.

Works

As author

  • The Shape of Ideas Sketchbook. Harry N. Abrams. 2018..
  • What Color Is Night?. Chronicle Books. 2019..
  • What Sound Is Morning?. Chronicle Books. 2020..
  • My Words. HarperCollins. 2020..
  • The Art of Living: Reflections on Mindfulness and the Overexamined Life. Harry N. Abrams. 2022..
  • I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf. Abrams Comic Arts. 2022..
  • The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity. Harry N. Abrams. 2022..
  • One Boy Watching. Chronicle Books. 2022..
  • Nothing Ever Happens on a Gray Day. Chronicle Books. 2023..
  • Poetry Comics. Chronicle Books. 2024..
  • Thinking About Thinking: Impossible Thoughts and Complicated Feelings. Harry N. Abrams. 2025..

    As illustrator

  • Trinder, Theresa; Snider, Grant; There Is a Rainbow. Chronicle Books LLC. 2021..
  • Jonker, Travis; Snider, Grant; Blue Floats Away. Harry N. Abrams. 2021..