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Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist 2017
Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Publication Design 2017
Winner of the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia 2017
Winner of the 2016 Singapore Book Awards' Book of the Year
Winner of Singapore Literature Prize 2016 (English Fiction)
The New York Times Bestseller
Romics Festival Premio speciale della giuria (Special Jury Prize) 2018

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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye tells the history of Singapore through the life and work of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, a pioneering but largely forgotten comic artist in Singapore. Celebrate 5 years of this groundbreaking Singapore graphic novel that has become a beloved classic and international sensation. This special edition has bonus material that includes a Q&A with the creator Sonny Liew and treasured sketches.

With a career spanning more than five decades, from pre-independent Singapore through its three Prime Ministers, Chan’s work reflects the changing political and economic environment in Singapore.

Containing Chan’s original illustrations, paintings and sketches, this is a groundbreaking work and labour of love aimed at recapturing the portrait of an artist, whose deep passion for comics and country is given a fitting tribute by award-winning comics artist Sonny Liew.

ISBN: 9789814901482
Format: Hardcover
Size: 255 x 170mm
Pages: 336pp
Published: September 2020
Sonny Liew is a comics artist, painter and illustrator whose work includes the New York Times bestseller The Shadow Hero with Gene Luen Yang (First Second Books), My Faith in Frankie with Mike Carey (DC Vertigo), the Jane Austen adaptation Sense & Sensibility (Marvel Comics), and a Doctor Fate series with Paul Levitz (DC Comics).

He has received Eisner nominations for his art on Wonderland (Disney Press) and The Shadow Hero, as well as for spearheading Liquid City (Image Comics), a multi-volume comics anthology featuring creators from Southeast Asia. His Malinky Robot series is a 2004 Xeric grant recipient and winner of the Best Science Fiction Comic Album Award at the 2009 Utopiales SF Festival. Born in Malaysia, he lives in Singapore, where he sleeps with the fishes.
“A joy to read. Sonny Liew masterfully weaves the history of Singapore with the history of comics into something you've never experienced before.”
— Gene Luen Yang, creator of American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints

“Unique and unprecedented... a masterpiece... This book is a joyous, beautiful, million-faceted thing – a celebration of the comic book medium, a technical masterclass, a thrill ride, a Bildungsroman and an unflinching retrospective of the post-war-into-modern era. I love it, and I'm in awe of it.”
— Mike Carey, author of Lucifer, The Unwritten and The Girl with All the Gifts

“Prepare to be swept away by a history of Singapore as you’ve never seen before. Sonny Liew delivers a brilliant and fiercely perceptive appraisal of this remarkable island-state.”
— Paul Gravett, author of Comics Art and 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die

“Equally uncompromising in its political critique and its artistic vision…. leaving you with the sense of having been in the company of an exceptional talent.”
— Cherian George, author of The Air-Conditioned NationRevisited and Freedom from the Press

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