Illustrator Inca Pan's work primarly appears in the fiction section of a Taiwanese newspaper, but his illustrations are so visually striking they easily stand without their accompanying stories. Pan's images are folkloric and character-based, and his distorted figures always seem to be in the middle of a peculiar relationship with the natural world or one another. He has a knack for condensing the tension of a story into a compelling image, and he's got the best anthropomorphized woodland creatures this side of a Wes Anderson feature. Even if the conflicts he depicts deal with potentially serious struggles, or the banal tasks of everyday life, he uses delightful color and an endearingly accessible style to keep things from ever getting too gloomy. In addition to newspaper illustrations, he's also a gallery artist and currently has work in the group online exhibition, "Strangers In A Strange Land." We're not-so-secretly hoping he gets the chance to work with animation sometime in 2013.