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Award-winning graphic novelist Sonny Liew blurs the lines between reality and fiction with this three-time Eisner Award-winning story that traces the parallel lives of the titular Charlie Chan and modern Singapore. In 1954, a young Charlie Chan Hock Chye witnesses a police attack on a peaceful student demonstration, an encounter that eventually leads him on a quest to become Singapore's Greatest Comic Artist. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye traces Chan's journey amidst the tumultuous times of pre-independent Singapore through to the hyper-modern metropolis the island city-state is today. Bringing together a dazzling array of genres, styles and forms, this multi-award-winning graphic novel is by turns exhilarating, funny and moving, reclaiming and reinventing a lost past and pushing the boundaries of the comic book medium in a brilliant retelling of the Singapore Story.
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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, Sonny Liew
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- Released
- 2019
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sonny Liew
- Publisher
- Epigram Books
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1912098741
- ISBN13
- 9781912098743
- Series
- Rating
- 4.5 out of 5
- Description
- Award-winning graphic novelist Sonny Liew blurs the lines between reality and fiction with this three-time Eisner Award-winning story that traces the parallel lives of the titular Charlie Chan and modern Singapore. In 1954, a young Charlie Chan Hock Chye witnesses a police attack on a peaceful student demonstration, an encounter that eventually leads him on a quest to become Singapore's Greatest Comic Artist. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye traces Chan's journey amidst the tumultuous times of pre-independent Singapore through to the hyper-modern metropolis the island city-state is today. Bringing together a dazzling array of genres, styles and forms, this multi-award-winning graphic novel is by turns exhilarating, funny and moving, reclaiming and reinventing a lost past and pushing the boundaries of the comic book medium in a brilliant retelling of the Singapore Story.