ART Liew, Sonny The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (1101870699)

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • From a bestselling graphic novelist comes “a hugely ambitious, stylistically acrobatic work” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) that brings us on a uniquely moving, funny, and thought-provoking journey through the life of an artist and the history of a nation.<br></b><br>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. <br><br>With <i>The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, </i>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.