Shaun Tan, right, and Andrew Ruhemann pose backstage with the Oscar for best animated short film for "The Lost Thing" at the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, in the Hollywood section ...

Shaun Tan's illustrations run the emotional gamut, from oddly whimsical to deeply introspective. Tan is best known for his graphic novel The Arrival and his Oscar-winning short film The Lost Thing.

Tan, 37, co-directed the movie and was only 25 when he wrote and drew "The Lost Thing," the shadowy but playful tale of a beach-combing boy who sees what others can't - or won't: a lumbering rust ...

NEW YORK (AP) - An odd but hopeful picture book about a lovable lost creature has a new life in the United States to go with its Oscar-winning, 15-minute movie.The ...