1. Shaun Tan:
http://www.shauntan.net/
"I knew very little about children's books when first asked to illustrate one, and tended to share many people's prejudice that they were exclusively the domain of young children, not an art form that lends itself to much artistic or intellectual sophistication."
Shaun Tan's often enigmatic and open-ended children's stories arise out of imagery culled from his sketchbooks, allowing a sense of meaning to "arise visually" & then be applied text & a malleable storyline. Before deciding on making a career from his art, Shaun Tan considered pursuing biotechnology; a thing that once you know, you can't stop seeing in his work.
2. Ragnar Aalbu:
http://www.ragnaraalbu.com/
Norwegian artist Ragnar Aalbu prefers graphic work focusing on the visual aspects of language. He describes his process for his characteristic style as the evolution from rough sketches, gone over with watercolor and crayon on paper, to a digital drawing, flatly-rendered but textured by scans of things (wallpapers, fabrics, etc.) that he has found.
3. Morteza Zahedi
http://mortezahedi.com/
On the quality & depth of Iranian Illustration: "Maybe this is because before painting, graphic art, & literature, in their current form, came to Iran, we already had a culture of book-making & illustration. The book & the process of bookmaking have historically been very important. The activity of illustrating was seen as a serious profession."
Zahedi's idiosyncratic, energetic style, sensitive to the forms & patterns of organic life, reads less literally than what most would consider illustration. But the way the shapes emanate from the toned paper communicates across language & culture. His treatment of line, colors & forms explodes with life in ways the youngest child could read.
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