![]() ![]() ![]() Liew crafts him into a fully realised character.” -The Economist “Brilliantly inventive….Charlie is mild but steel-spined, observant and proud with masterful economy of detail-an arched eyebrow here, his head at a resigned angle there-Mr. ![]() The color palettes, the paper quality, the incorporation of photographs and sketches, they all combine with the text to provide a complex view of Charlie Chan Hock Chye that has a strong sense of history behind it.” -The A.V. ![]() A beautifully multidimensional portrait of the cartoonist. “A fascinating look at a cartoonist’s growth over time and how his creative output reflects the culture around him, and Liew tells Chan’s story in a way that only comic books can…. It’s funny and rich and satisfying, and one of the best comics of the year." -Slate a multilayered masterpiece of comic-book and real-world history, a portrait of the postwar world made in a thrilling postmodern style. a mercurial delight." -The New York Times "" hugely ambitious, stylistically acrobatic work. Easily the first comics masterwork of 2016.” -The Beat “A fascinating bildungsroman that rivals other Eastern-based works like Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life, with a dash of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay…. ![]()
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