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With intense emotions and something to actually say, the Fort Thunder / Paper Rad / Whatever aesthetic of color and simplicity and childishness can be devastatingly intimate. The most important thing about Grant Gronewold is that his style and his emotions are completely entwined and you can feel it on the page and on his Tumblr. There is no pretension. What may seem to some as affectation is really just Grant speaking how he learned to speak.





And yes, I said stick and pokes. Grant apparently let a few brave individuals live out their wildest dreams of letting a Tumblr-famous weirdo repeatedly stab them with a sharp ink-laden object, and included a bunch of pictures of the results in this book. This is as intimate as it gets short of someone getting pregnant. Grant, speaking on his tattoo work, had this to say: "

I can’t believe people let me mark them forever. Crazy ding dongs!" He's being modest. His stick and poke drawings have the same intelligent naivete as his comics and traditional drawings.









I'll leave off with some random images from Grant's Tumblr interview with Grant by It's Nice That, so you can get to know the artist more in his own words. , because that's how I first found him and also because I can't bear to break the spine of this book to scan more of the awesome drawings in it. Hopefully you'll enjoy them as much as I have over the years. I also highly recommend reading that, so you can get to know the artist more in his own words.

















The Gronewold himself



