Artist Shaun Tan and director Andrew Ruhemann have won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. C’est magnifique!

In parochial news, Margo Lanagan’s novel Tender Morsels tied with Jeffrey Ford’s The Shadow Year for Best Novel and Shaun Tan was awarded Best Artist at the World Fantasy Awards. Neither was at the ceremony to collect their awards. Shaun was too busy working on a film and Margo had decided to stay home on [...]

Norm Geras kindly asked me to write a Writer’s Choice piece for normblog. I chose, as you may have already gathered, to wax rapturously about Shaun Tan’s The Arrival.

Just through the email from Jonathan Strahan, it seems that Melbourne has won the 2010 Worldcon bid and that Shaun Tan will be Artistic GoH. Congratulations to everyone on the committee. Here’s the bid’s website. It’s going to be a great convention.