![]() ![]() ![]() So often though, I feel like the authors rely too much on an interesting subject to do anything formally interesting. There are a few great ones–Chester Brown’s Louis Riel comes to mind, about the founder of Manitoba, as does Lauren Redniss’s Radioactive, about Marie Curie. I am generally not a fan of graphic biographies (excluding memoirs). For its unconventional approach to the graphic biography genre. ![]() There’s only one thing though: Charlie Chan Hock Chye never existed. It is also a treasury of excerpts from his greatest works over the decades, from the manga-inspired robot comics of his teens, to the gritty war comics of the post-war period, to his forays into space opera, social satire, superheroes, and talking animals. Premise: The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye is a graphic biography of Singapore’s greatest comic book artist, Singapore’s very own Osamu Tezuka, Stan Lee and Will Eisner, rolled into one. Setting: Singapore, mostly between the 1940s and 1980s. ![]()
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