Grant Gilliland :: 2006

Bio:

Grant Gilliland is an illustrator and character designer based out of San Francisco, California. He spends most of his free time thinking about funny proportions and animals with personalities. He can also lift about 500 sharpies, no spotter.

Grant grew up in Dayton, Ohio, where he spent about 90% of his time reading Juxtapoz magazine or drawing cartoons when he was supposed to be doing math homework. Grant's disinterest in school ended abruptly after enrolling at The Columbus College of Art & Design, where he earned his Illustration BFA in 2005.

A post-grad illustration career was initiated with the launch of Grant's blog The Gross Uncle in 2006. Serving as a platform for his wild style and humorous writing, the blog garnered him interest from early clients like JibJab and SF Weekly. Teaming up with Scott Hull Associates in 2007, Grant has since worked with major clients such as Weekly Reader, The United States Postal Service, Christopher Chadbourne and Associates, and Frog Design.

Clients Include:

SF Weekly
SF Station
JibJab
Weekly Reader

Links:

The Gross Uncle

August 2006

I’m like Randy Savage if Randy Savage was a choir boy or a lawyer.

August 31, 2006

Tiny Bear is watching you pee in the woods. Josiah on no-strings. Whizzing by a group of giggling girls, he thought “Shouldn’t have sold the Jag”. “Hey! You guys have the Love Daggers split with Skullantula?” Whenever you trip a little on the sidewalk and think nobody sees it, you’re wrong…Ron and Don do.

Equal parts mysterious and stinky.

August 30, 2006

I told him it looked “pretty ok”… “Oh, didn’t see you come in!” “The nukes are set to fire at…hmmm…cheeseburger dogs, i’ll take one of those.”

The Mayor of Radsville speaks!

August 29, 2006

I went to the neighboring county of Radsville to attend a city hall meeting where the mayor was facing several charges, but first, a few of the people who accompanied me on my journalistic adventure. My brother Keith has various interests in which he pursues to the creepiest utmost.Keith: “I think it’s a shame that [...]

Peelin’ out in ma Festiva!

August 28, 2006

Rex, the dutiful breadwinner. Manly jumble.

Sunday droppings.

August 27, 2006

Earlier this morning, caught up in the thick brain fog, I decided to try out my hang glider off the porch. My deformed skull can still manage to squeeze these out. For the rest of the day, i’ll be floating above Pier 39 and dropping old socks and roofies into the funnel cakes of Sunday [...]

August 25, 2006

A busy week of freelance work leaves me feeling a bit lethargic and flat assed…not to mention I am now sleeping in piles of dirty, unkempt laundry with a cool new congregation of mice that look relatively disease-free. We’ve been spooning and sharing brownie recipies. I hope my mail-order bride doesn’t find out. Here are [...]

August 15, 2006

Here is the first batch of drawings for your scabby, infected eyeballs. Mailing his Fungus Lovers Fan Club membership, he knew it was all downhill from here. Fast Food. Wall Street. Some people ask Fred (Old Man Shakes if you’re on the street) if he’s dancing, but he’s really just waiting for the bus.

Welcome to iamgross.edu!

Hello, My name is Grant Gilliland, I live in San Francisco, and this is my first official post at iamgross.edu. In order to get everyone situated, I intend to state three things: 1.) I am not an uncle in the literal sense, where I have one or more siblings that have spawned children or accidentally [...]