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by Kelly Brekunitch
From a young age, local author Grant Snider found a passion in illustration. While a competitive fire with his twin brother, Gavin, helped spark that, the Derby native has been drawing ever since. Starting on old sheets of computer paper to having comics posted in publications such as “The Kansas City Star” and “The New Yorker,” Snider has continued to let his creative side run wild.
“These [sheets of computer paper] were like our big canvasses where we could just kind of put all these different characters, worlds and scenes on,” Snider said. “I think cartooning’s let me keep that sense of imagination.”
Now, Snider’s work is gaining national critical acclaim – as his most recent collection of comics, “I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf,” has been nominated for a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award for best graphic novel/comic.
Once he went off to college at the University of Kansas, Snider began drawing comics for the student newspaper, “The University Daily Kansan.” He was drawing comic strips five days a week during his junior year. When he went off to dental school, that passion followed and he kept drawing, submitting to local publications like “The Kansas City Star.”
Eventually, those works evolved into Snider’s brand of Incidental Comics and website – where he posts to weekly. Those comics were then collected for his first book, “The Shape of Ideas,” published in 2017 – something Snider said he was always working toward from a young age….