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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.
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Sonny Liew is an award-winning 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) , Sense & Sensibility (Marvel Comics) and Doctor Fate with Paul Levitz (DC Comics) .
He has received Eisner nominations for The Shadow Hero and Wonderland (Disney Press) , 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 in Nantes. He received the Singapore National Arts Council's Young Artist Award in 2010.
Born in Malaysia, he lives in Singapore, where he sleeps with the fishes.
