TY - BOOK AU - Liew, Sonny AU - Sonny Liew TI - The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye SN - 978110187 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - : Pantheon Books, KW - Chye, Charlie Chan Hock -- Comic books, strips KW - Singapore -- Politics and government -- Comic books, strips, N1 - Fighting spiders, Longkang fish -- Charlie joins the revolution -- Standing on our own two feet -- The allegories of Chan & Wong -- Superhero -- Sang Kucing & the ants -- It's all about being practical -- The king of comics -- Epilogue: An old man now, after all N2 - Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye. Now in his early 70s as he looks back on his career, Chan has spent a lifetime making comics in his native Singapore since he was a boy of 16, in 1954. The artist doubles here as both the narrator and the subject matter, as his life story parallels the changes in Singapore over five decades since the war. The evolution of his artwork mirrors the evolution of both his homeland and the ER -