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Sonny Liew

    Sonny Liew is a celebrated comics artist, painter, and illustrator whose work is noted for its insightful commentary on societal themes and distinctive visual artistry. His creations delve into complex human relationships and cultural identities, rendered with a keen eye for detail and emotional depth. Through his narratives, Liew encourages readers to reflect on the world around them, offering fresh perspectives on both familiar and unfamiliar stories. His artistic approach is praised for its innovation and its capacity to engage a broad audience.

    Sense and sensibility
    The art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
    • The art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a bestselling graphic novelist comes “a hugely ambitious, stylistically acrobatic work” (The New York Times Book Review) that brings us on a uniquely moving, funny, and thought-provoking journey through the life of an artist and the history of a nation. Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye. Now in his early 70s, Chan has been making comics in his native Singapore since 1954, when he was a boy of 16. As he looks back on his career over five decades, we see his stories unfold before us in a dazzling array of art styles and forms, their development mirroring the evolution in the political and social landscape of his homeland and of the comic book medium itself. With The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, Sonny Liew has drawn together a myriad of genres to create a thoroughly ingenious and engaging work, where the line between truth and construct may sometimes be blurred, but where the story told is always enthralling.

      The art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye2016
      4.5
    • Sense and sensibility

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      .0000000000Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, the epitome of sense, desires a man who is promised to another woman. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the epitome of sensibility, loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts her. True love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with an Afterword by Henry Hitchings.

      Sense and sensibility2011
      4.1