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 A New
York Times bestseller An Economist Book of the Year 2016 An NPR Graphic Novel Pick for 2016 A
Washington Post Best Graphic Novel of 2016 A New York Post Best Books of 2016 A Publishers
Weekly Best Book of 2016 A South China Morning Post Top 10 Asian books of 2016 An A.V. Club
Best Comics of 2016 A Comic Books Resources Top 100 Comics of 2016 A Mental Floss Most
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. 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 bringing us on a uniquely moving funny and
thought-provoking journey through the life of an artist and the history of a nation.
