Shaun Tan - "The Watcher" (1998) - scratchboardThe Watcher (1998) Scratchboard by Shaun Tan. Drawing size: 12 x 16 cm (4. 7" x 6. 2") This drawing is framed. "This illustration is from The Playground, the first published book I both wrote and illustrated in 1998, a horror story about undead children who play in a suburban park after the living have gone home. It was based on my own childhood fears of a particular playground at the end of my street which was always brightly illuminated in the dead