Grant Buist
cartoonist
Grant Buist (born 1973) is a cartoonist, animator, and playwright from Wellington, New Zealand. He is notable for his comic strips Jitterati and Brunswick, whose characters have been reproduced in many forms of cultural activities including newspapers, murals, short films, and theatre productions.
Biography
Grant Buist was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1973. He is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington's Theatre and Film Department; he also studied graphic design at Massey University. He is currently living on the Kāpiti Coast.
Jitterati
Buist writes the comic strip Jitterati (a satire on latte-sipping cafe values along with contemporary political and social developments in Wellington and beyond) which was published in the weekly Wellington City newspaper The Capital Times until it closed in April 2013. Jitterati hit the 500th episode in May 2012. A compilation book of Jitterati strips was published in 2009. From July 2013 the cartoon series began appearing in the monthly Wellington magazine FishHead, which closed in 2016. Jitterati was then published online, by Scoop until April 2017, and subsequently on Buist's Twitter account.
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