Journal Articles:
".... You've been drawing since a young age and freelanced in high school and college. Could you describe your creative process? How has it evolved over the years?
My thinking process has
changed over the years, though my technical process has stayed pretty
much the same: skills learned in high school, such as how to use
perspective, anatomical proportion, how to use canvas, oil paint and
pencils, etc. My painting style has gone through several phases...." from Ling, Chuan-Yao, 2008, A Conversation with Illustrator Shaun Tan, World Literature Today, vol. 82, no. 5,
Sep/Oct, accessible via the Proquest database, Wollongong City Council database collection.
"... the boy eventually finds a Daliesque space, which is cluttered with 'things' that just don't belong in a world that has lost its capacity to accept difference or to deal with the irrational and the inexplicable. Here Tan appropriates and transforms Hieronymous Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (c 1504) by depicting a visual...." from Mallan, Kerry, 2005, Trash Aesthetics and Utopian Memory, Bookbird, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 28-34, accessible via the Proquest database, Wollongong City Council database collection.