The Most Famous
COMIC ARTISTS from Australia
This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Comic Artists. The pantheon dataset contains 226 Comic Artists, 1 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 24th most number of Comic Artists behind Uruguay, and South Korea.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Comic Artists of all time. This list of famous Australian Comic Artists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Shaun Tan (b. 1974)
With an HPI of 39.13, Shaun Tan is the most famous Australian Comic Artist. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Shaun Tan (born 15 January 1974) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for The Lost Thing, a 2011 animated short film adaptation of the 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. He also wrote and illustrated the books The Red Tree (2001) and The Arrival (2006). Born in Fremantle, Tan grew up in Perth. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel The Arrival won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. It also won the 2007 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award, and the 2006 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize. Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense", Tan won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature. Tan is a very popular artist in Australia.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Australian comic artists born between 1974 and 1974. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Australian comic artists include Shaun Tan.
