Shaun Tan, Rules of Summer (2013)

  • @angrystego
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    181 year ago

    I highly recomend the whole book. It’s full of stunning art and tells a compelling story of a Kid, who moves to a different country (in Tan’s case it was Australia), where everything is new, fascinating and deadly. It’s also a story of an older local kid, who becomes an unwilling guide to the new kid, gets fed up with explaining everything and being a babysitter and has to find compassion to create a brotherly relationship with the new kid. It’s truly some amazing storytelling done solely by means of oil painting.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    Shaun Tan’s art is impressively depressing. I hate looking at it, not because it is bad or ugly, but because it perfectly illustrates everything wrong with the world. Which takes skill, I guess.

    • @angrystego
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      11 year ago

      How about his books? I find the endings rather hopeful and positive generaly.

  • @namosca
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    17 months ago

    Wow, so much nice stuff on this community!

    I have no words for the art here, really amazing!