Dave's Comics: Swoon Now! The Bird King

Friday, 27 May 2011

Swoon Now! The Bird King

Come with me for a peek into the sketch book of the wonderful Shaun Tan; he who inspired us with The Red Tree, entertained us with Tales From Outer Suburbia and The Lost Thing and stopped the clocks with The Arrival. Ladies and gentlemen I give you The Bird King (Templar).

All Images are taken from Shaun Tan's official website (see here).

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The New York Times, in a Sunday op-ed piece written more than a decade after his death, said Kirby

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created a new grammar of storytelling and a cinematic style of motion. Once-wooden characters cascaded from one frame to another — or even from page to page — threatening to fall right out of the book into the reader’s lap. The force of punches thrown was visibly and explosively evident. Even at rest, a Kirby character pulsed with tension and energy in a way that makes movie versions of the same characters seem static by comparison.

Alan was born in Northampton, England to brewery worker Ernest Moore and printer Sylvia Doreen. He lived in a poor working class area, and, after passing the Eleven plus exam, attended Northampton Grammar School, but in 1970, at the age of 17, he was expelled for dealing LSD, later describing himself as "one of the world's most inept LSD dealers".With his first wife, Phyllis, he had two daughters, Amber and Leah. The couple also had a mutual lover, Deborah. In time, Phyllis, Deborah and the two children left Moore. On 12 May 2007, he married Melinda Gebbie, with whom he has worked on several comics.He currently lives in Northampton. He is a vegetarian, an anarchist,a practicing magician and occultist, and he worships a Roman snake-deity named Glycon, which he acknowledges to be a "complete hoax"