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Shaun Tan mural

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

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Now this is just amazing – it is a part of a much bigger work, a mural by the award winning Shaun Tan for the children’s section of the Subiaco Public Library in Perth in the Land Down Under. You know, I was trying to think on something insightful and amazingly cultured to say about [...]

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Shaun Tan’s Lost Thing nominated for Oscar….

Saturday, February 12, 2011

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Late on this one, but thought it worth a mention – Shaun Tan (Tales Of Outer Suburbia, The Arrival and many more) has adapted his lovely picture book The Lost Thing into a short animated film and it’s up for the animated short film award. Joe did mention it when covering the Oscar’s longlist earlier – [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Shaun Tan’s European Tour

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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Celebrated Australian illustrator and cartoonist Shaun tan (The Arrival, Tales From Outer Suburbia) is currently touring Europe (or at least part of it) with an exhibition of a selection of his illustrative work and comics.  The exhibition debuted on October 11th in the Burg Wissem Bilderbuchmuseum (or Picture Book Museum) in Troisdorf, Germany, and features [...]

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Tales From Outer Suburbia – take a walk through Shaun Tan’s magically surreal neighbourhood

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan Templar Publishing Where exactly does an illustrated children’s book become a comic or graphic novel? More and more I find myself picking up some gorgeous children’s book or other and finding it drifting towards what I’d define as comics. And that’s one of the reasons I picked up [...]

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