The art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

The art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye / presented by Sonny Liew.

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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liew, Sonny, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2015]
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Cartoonists > Singapore > Comic books, strips, etc.
The Dr. Mark D. Nevins '86 Collection for the Study of Comics and Graphic Novels
Gift of Mark D. Nevins, Ph.D. (Class of 1986), 2018
Singapore > Politics and government > Comic books, strips, etc.
Singapore > Economic conditions > Comic books, strips, etc.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Comics (Graphic works)
Graphic novels.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter one: fighting spiders, longkang fish
  • Chapter two: Charlie joins the revolution
  • Chapter three: standing on our own two feet
  • Chapter four: the allegories of Chan & Wong
  • Chapter five: superhero
  • Chapter six: Sang Kucing & the ants
  • Chapter seven: it's all about being practical
  • Chapter eight: the king of comics
  • Epilogue: an old man now, after all.

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