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THE BLOG AT THE CROSSROADS
A Conversation With Shaun Tan
Posted: August 26, 2011
I’m looking forward immensely to interviewing Shaun Tan this coming Tuesday, August 30th, up on the top floor at Waterstone’s Piccadilly.
Tan is probably best known for the multi-award-winning wordless graphic novel The Arrival, chosen as book of the year by the Angoulême International Comics Festival and now also available as a lavish boxed set with a complete second volume, Scenes From A Nameless Land, full of preparatory drawings and detailing his creative process. He has also scooped an Oscar no less for his animated adaptation of his own book The Lost Thing from 2000, reissued this year along with The Red Tree (2001) and The Rabbits (1998), the latter written by John Marsden, in the compilation Lost & Found from Arthur A. Levine Books. Tan is over here this month from Australia for the Edinburgh International Book Fair and for a selling exhibition in London at The Illustration Cupboard. He is also launching the UK edition of The Bird King, a beautiful new gatherum of sketches, projects and personal artworks published by Templar, who also released Tales from Outer Suburbia in Britain.
Tickets for my conversation with Shaun can be booked online for £5 (or £3 for Waterstone’s Loyalty Cardholders) or you can get more info on 0207 851 2400. Don’t miss this chance to meet one of the world’s most gifted and sensitive graphic storytellers.
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