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 26th most number of Comic Artists behind India, and Ukraine.
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 48.54, 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 filmmaker. He is known for his graphic novel The Arrival (2006), which won several awards, and for his 2010 animated short film adaptation of the 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated, The Lost Thing, for which he won an Academy Award. He has also written and illustrated many other books, including The Lost Thing (2000) and The Red Tree (2001). Many of his works have won awards, including in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, and many have been adapted for screen and stage.
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.
