Australian artist Shaun Tan chose to tell an immigrant's story without words. He drew bizarre-looking worlds--old ones full of menace and a new one tinged with hope. His is the familiar tale of a migrant bidding farewell to the old country and landing in the new one. But Tan makes the story fresh in his new graphic novel. It's called 'The Arrival', and it's just been published in the United States.

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Shaun Tan talks about how he constructed sets and had friends and family improvise scenes in order to figure out how to draw sequences for the book.
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Shaun Tan talks about where the images in the book came from.
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Shaun Tan talks about the research he did on Ellis Island and other immigrant gateways.
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Shaun Tan talks about the influence of his parents who appear as characters in the book.
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