{"id":410,"date":"2011-06-26T13:19:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=410"},"modified":"2012-09-26T11:12:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:12:36","slug":"a-look-into-the-mind-of-shaun-tan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/a-look-into-the-mind-of-shaun-tan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Into the Mind of Shaun Tan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May, artist Shaun Tan won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, a sort of equivalent to winning a Nobel Prize in picture book illustration. I can see why. <\/p>\n<p>Shaun Tan is an amazing illustrator. I first came across his work while reading Kelly Link&#8217;s short story collection <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/something_differentya.htm#Pretty_Monsters_by_Kelly_Link\">Pretty Monsters<\/a><\/em>, reviewed here, and loved his illustrations so much that I tracked down some of his other works, including <em>Tales from Outer Suburbia<\/em> and the incredible graphic novel <em>The Arrival<\/em>. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with <em>The Arrival<\/em>, you should be. There are no words.<\/p>\n<p>And that is what is coolest about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/zeitgeist\/0,1518,769089,00.html\">interview<\/a> he did for <em>Der Spiegel<\/em>. Rather than giving lengthy, wordy answers to the questions they posed, he sketched in his answers. I love this approach to interviewing an illustrator, and particularly to interviewing Shaun Tan, who expresses himself so beautifully without any exposition at all.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Shaun. I look forward to seeing what you come up with next. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, artist Shaun Tan won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, a sort of equivalent to winning a Nobel Prize in picture book illustration. I can see why. Shaun Tan is an amazing illustrator. I first came across his work while reading Kelly Link&#8217;s short story collection Pretty Monsters, reviewed here, and loved his illustrations<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/a-look-into-the-mind-of-shaun-tan\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[425,433,34,188,427,432,428,429,424,430,431,435],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astrid-lindgren-memorial-award","tag-awards","tag-childrens-books","tag-graphic-novels","tag-illustrators","tag-interview","tag-kelly-link","tag-pretty-monsters","tag-shaun-tan","tag-tales-from-outer-suburbia","tag-the-arrival","tag-wordless-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}