Grant Gilliland :: 2008

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

March 2008

San Francisco’s most sought after pet chiropractic

March 27, 2008

…You may have seen him recently on the Daytime Talk Show “How Do You Mean?” starring AJ Mathis, or as a guest appearance on this week’s episode of the Lifetime medical drama “Flatline”…or if you happen to live in San Francisco, you may know him as the guy who rides his recumbent bicycle on the [...]

Germaine and Boing-Boing…

March 21, 2008

“This specimen here is a long-necked four-attenae Floofinwillow…I studied these in school when I was finishing up my BFA in Botanical Wizardry…Y’see, I went to one of those real liberal schools that lets you craft your own major. That’s what I came up with for myself…although my curriculum towards the end leaned more towards the [...]

TheGrossUncle at "How We Do"

March 19, 2008

hushXhush Presents:How We DoAn Art & Music Mash UpGraffiti/Street/Low Brow Art& Launch Party For:Heavy Hitterz Manila But don’t take my word for it! Check out more info by visiting the links below! -Participating artists and music performance list available at SF Station’s page here. -Myx.tv’s coverage of last year’s Heavy Hitterz show in SF… -Here [...]

SF Station is featuring my work this April

March 17, 2008

Yours grossly will have his work decorating SF Station’s event fliers for April of this year! I am officially excited to the point of extreme sweaty hands and occasional bursts of spontaneous incomplete/lazy cartwheels. SF Station is THE San Francisco city guide…the most comprehensive and complete guide you’d want to use if’n you want to [...]

Theo: a children’s book in the process of becoming

March 13, 2008

For those folks that don’t know…I am (and have been for the last year or so) working on a children’s book called “Theo”. The story was first concieved in the mind of Professor Kentucky Lim, who then quickly ran for his pen to scribble this great story of all stories down. The Professor and I [...]

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight…

March 10, 2008

The nice folks at Weekly Reader asked me to do my own visual interpretation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for their next upcoming issue. Being a staunch supporter of chivalry, I gladly donned my knightly gear and got straight to vectoring up some fine color images…i’ll admit it was a bit of a [...]

Weener pup and his many helpful uses…

March 8, 2008

What an undeniable joy it is to sit atop your weener pup while sipping your soy-based coffee mixture…if ever there was a time to celebrate the mellow pace of a Sunday afternoon, it’s got to be now. If not now, then when? Take it all in while you can, before it’s too late…because before you [...]