Scott Lee Chua @scottleechua.com · Dec 5 1 / 2
...a video game adaptation of Sonny Liew's landmark graphic novel, "The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye," which I first read in 2017 and haven't stopped thinking about since. The comic is a heartfelt kayfabe about a Forrest Gump-esque character named Charlie, a Singaporean comic artist...
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...who grows up alongside Singapore, which only became an independent nation-state in 1965. The comic tells an alternate history of Singapore as interpreted through "Charlie's comics" — a "meta", dizzying range of comics in all its forms. Among Charlie's early comics was one in particular...