Grant Snider
Auteur de I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
A propos de l'auteur
Grant Snider's comics and illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, Best American Comics 2013, and on his website Incidental Comics. He illustrated Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts. (Bowker Author Biography)
Œuvres de Grant Snider
Oeuvres associées
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts (2016) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 391 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1985
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Wichita, Kansas, USA
- Agent
- Judy Hansen
- Courte biographie
- Grant Snider began drawing and writing before he knew what he was doing. Soon it was too late to stop.
His comics have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Kansas City Star, The Best American Comics 2013, and all across the internet. He is also the author and illustrator of many children's picture books.
Grant lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife, daughter, and four sons, where he also practices orthodontics. You can often find him carrying a sketchbook, lost in his own thoughts.
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What Color Is Night? par Grant Snider
The moonbeams entering our window, the caramel-orange lit windows as the night slowly advances, the distant city lights, the glimmering eyes of animals that forage during the night, the serene blue light of the sky, the most beautiful hour in the day, all wonderfully ''trapped'' within the pages of this lovely book.
First sentence: I want to put down on paper the feeling of fresh possibilities.
Poems told in comic book format. This is a combination I never knew I needed, but now I do know. I want MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE. Love this combination so much.
The book is arranged into the four seasons. It opens with spring.
This one was love at first sight. I enjoyed many of the poems. I did. But I loved the recurring subject. Each of the four seasons contains a poem titled, "How To Write A Poem." (Each one is numbered.)
How To Write a Poem #1
Find a quiet place.
A sharp pencil.
A blank page.
Sit still.
Keep quiet.
Wait.
A poem will rush in to fill the space.
What I can't really convey is how LOVELY the poems are when illustrated in the comic format.… (plus d'informations)
Poems told in comic book format. This is a combination I never knew I needed, but now I do know. I want MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE. Love this combination so much.
The book is arranged into the four seasons. It opens with spring.
This one was love at first sight. I enjoyed many of the poems. I did. But I loved the recurring subject. Each of the four seasons contains a poem titled, "How To Write A Poem." (Each one is numbered.)
How To Write a Poem #1
Find a quiet place.
A sharp pencil.
A blank page.
Sit still.
Keep quiet.
Wait.
A poem will rush in to fill the space.
What I can't really convey is how LOVELY the poems are when illustrated in the comic format.… (plus d'informations)
Started off very strong as an ode to books and reading, then trailed into a "writing is hard" complaint. Good enough, though, that I'll look into his other stuff.
(Side note to all writers: yes, writing is hard. But so are many, many, many other jobs, most of them harder than writing. Nobody cares about how hard writing is, except maybe other writers who write about how hard writing is.)
(Side note to all writers: yes, writing is hard. But so are many, many, many other jobs, most of them harder than writing. Nobody cares about how hard writing is, except maybe other writers who write about how hard writing is.)
Somewhat interesting exploration of creativity and ideas, and I like his illustration style. But the strained poetry becomes a bit much after a while, and the end feels like he was struggling to get ideas of his own. He seemed to channel that frustration into writing about how difficult it is to come up with ideas, which, frankly, is just boring.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 867
- Popularité
- #29,521
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 54
- ISBN
- 29
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 1