Grant Gilliland

  • 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

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  • May 2007


    I would go so far as to say that those are dogs…officer.

    May 31, 2007
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    Strictly Martinis for Manny…Mostly.

    May 30, 2007
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    Mildred, would you juss ge-tin the caah!

    May 18, 2007
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    Wino Pup

    May 17, 2007
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    You never know what to expect with a cat named Daniel.

    May 16, 2007

    Danneral! Get aways from that racket-a-phone! And take off your dirty Ugg beewts…I just wet paper-toweled and Febreezied the carpets! You’re not even listening are you? We’ll see how you feel once I get to revvin’ the Dust Shark© and go coming up behind you, then we’ll all know who’s the real head of General [...]

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    I hear his ponytail has one or two magic powers.

    May 15, 2007
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    A show of hands

    May 14, 2007

    Steffan and a couple of hand models.

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    Team Draw!!!

    May 11, 2007

    SF TEAM DRAW/ SUN MAY 27/ DOLORES PARK / NOON-? Remember “Year Book Day”? Well this is sort of the Mission District’s version of year book day! Show up with a blank sketch book and whatever you like to draw with. Walk around meet some new people, trade off sketck books, and leave at the [...]

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    You should know to knock before you just bust in like that…

    May 9, 2007
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    Poetry at City Hall

    May 8, 2007

    Illustration for the SF Weekly…Espresso and patchouli on canvas.

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    150th post!

    May 7, 2007

    Dogs! Three of them! Black and white! Ink! On! Paper! Neat! How! About!

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    Beach Legs, Creep Whistles, and Puffin’ Pups

    May 6, 2007
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    Odds and Ends

    May 5, 2007
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    Walt and the Whale

    May 4, 2007

    A modern-day Captain Ahab.

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    Hector Cottenkandie, flower bully.

    May 3, 2007

    Hector Cottenkandie (b.1915) was known to many as a reclusive writer who was later killed in a somewhat comical (as described by witnesses) hot-air balloon accident involving two hang-gliders and a sky writing plane, all three of which were on the ground at the time. His short career was often overlooked by many literary historians [...]

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    Bug eatin’ fun (color version)

    May 2, 2007
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    Okay, that’s one too many for you today

    May 1, 2007
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