The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye [Hardcover]

A 2017 Eisner Award Winner for Best Writer/Artist, Best US Edition of International Material—Asia, and Best Publication Design
Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016
ANew York Timesbestseller
AnEconomistBook of the Year 2016
AnNPRGraphic Novel Pick for 2016
AWashington Post Best Graphic Novel of 2016
ANew York PostBest Books of 2016
APublishers WeeklyBest Book of 2016
ASouth China Morning PostTop 10 Asian books of 2016
AnA.V. ClubBest Comics of 2016
AComic Books ResourcesTop 100 Comics of 2016
AMental FlossMost Interesting Graphic Novel of 2016

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.
 
WithThe Art of Charlie Chan Hock ChyeSonny 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, bringing us on a uniquely moving, funny, and thought-provoking journey through the life of an artist and the history of a nation.“A startlingly brilliant tour de force….Although the premise sounds simple—it purports to be the biography of a fictional comic book artist—what Liew does with it is anything but. At once dizzyingly meta and deeply heartfelt, the book spans 80 years, and in its complicated layering, reminded me of everything fromMausandThe Tin Drumto, believe it or not,Ulysses….Probablã!