Grant Snider is an orthodontist by day and an artist by night. His comics have been featured in the Kansas City Star, the New York Times, and the New York Times Book Review, as well as The Best American Comics in 2013. He lives in Wichita, Kansas, with his wife and three children.
'What do ideas look like? Where do they come from?'...
Surprisingly, Snider’s beautifully composed cartoons have cogent
answers to those questions — or if they don’t, he’s at least an
urgent asker. He’s created something unique: a synthesis of comics,
philosophy, and poetry: a thoughtful new way of packaging eternal
ideas in cartoon boxes.
*The Los Angeles Review of Books*
Grant Snider’s The Shape of Ideas is a creative kaleidoscope of
humor, insight, and truth. An inventive window into the creative
experience filled with hope and encouragement for daydreamers and
doodlers, sketchers and scribblers, inventors, explorers, and
spinners of yarns.
*Newbery Medal Winner for Moon Over Manifest and the Printz Honor
for Navigating Early*
The tongue-in-cheek wit and self-deprecating style make this a
pleasant introduction to the joy and frustration of making any kind
of art, and the beautifully designed presentation—with a charming
die-cut cover—is a fine proof of concept.
*Publishers Weekly*
“...a lighthearted visual examination of the labor behind the
creative process.”
*Hyperallergic*
Grant Snider's work delivers introspection, humor, and inspiration
in visually stunning drawings. They are a colorful look into the
creative process—from the moments of quiet contemplation to the
days of frenzied desperation.
*author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't
Stop Talking*
A friendly, encouraging depiction of the creative process, with its
highs and lows, from a comics creator.
*The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel*
"The Shape of Ideas is a book about looking, process, struggle, and
how one creative orthodontist in Wichita has no choice but to
create, and has done so since he can remember."
*NPR Wichita*
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