Grant Bond (cartoonist)
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Grant Bond is a comic book
artist
, writer
and award-winning editorial cartoonist
living in Kansas City, Kansas
.
. His love for art
was a predominate fixture in his youth and early adult life due to the support and influence of his grandmother. He studied under Russian painter Sergei Davydov (artist) for many years. Bond has credited comic creator Ande Parks
for personally sparking an early interest in creating comics. He left the creative world behind to successfully manage a business for most of the 1990s. In late 2006 he returned to comics with his first book Revere: Revolution in Silver originally published with Alias Enterprises
. As a relative newcomer to comics, Bond's animation
-influenced art style has already amassed a heavy fan base.
In 2006 Bond illustrated The Clockwork Girl comic book now being adapted into the 2011 movie The Clockwork Girl (film)
,. In 2007 he illustrated a comic book adaptation of the 2009 movie Trick 'r Treat, which was published by DC/Wildstorm
.
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and award-winning editorial cartoonist
Editorial cartoonist
An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary....
living in Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...
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Biography
Grant Bond was born and raised in Kansas City, KansasKansas City, Kansas
Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...
. His love for art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
was a predominate fixture in his youth and early adult life due to the support and influence of his grandmother. He studied under Russian painter Sergei Davydov (artist) for many years. Bond has credited comic creator Ande Parks
Ande Parks
Ande Parks is a professional American comic book artist, known for his work as an inker and writer in the industry. His greatest notoriety has come from his stint with fellow artist Phil Hester on DC Comics’ Green Arrow series from 2001 to 2004 and writing the graphic novels Union Station and...
for personally sparking an early interest in creating comics. He left the creative world behind to successfully manage a business for most of the 1990s. In late 2006 he returned to comics with his first book Revere: Revolution in Silver originally published with Alias Enterprises
Alias Enterprises
Alias Enterprises is a United States publishing company. Their main divisions are Alias Comics and Cross Culture . Based in San Diego, California, it was founded in January 2005 by Brett Burner and Mike S. Miller...
. As a relative newcomer to comics, Bond's animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
-influenced art style has already amassed a heavy fan base.
In 2006 Bond illustrated The Clockwork Girl comic book now being adapted into the 2011 movie The Clockwork Girl (film)
The Clockwork Girl (film)
The Clockwork Girl is an animated film, based on the comic book series created by Sean O’Reilly and Kevin Hanna. It stars Carrie-Anne Moss, Alexa Vega and Jesse McCartney.-Plot:...
,. In 2007 he illustrated a comic book adaptation of the 2009 movie Trick 'r Treat, which was published by DC/Wildstorm
Wildstorm
WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, published American comic books. Originally an independent company established by Jim Lee and further expanded upon in subsequent years by other creators, WildStorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1999...
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Film
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