![]() ![]() ![]() Pastiche comprises the majority of the work, with tributes to well-known comics in Ah Huat’s Giant Robot (a clear reference to Gigantor), Roachman (featuring a pin-up page highlighting the hero’s arsenal that’s right out of Jack Kirby’s Marvel work), and Days of August (with its washed-out colors and full-page grids of TV screens reminiscent of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns). Their style varies as the narrative progresses through Chan’s creative evolution. ![]() Liew, who was named Best Writer/Artist at last month’s ceremonies, is credited as “presenting” the story, producing a plethora of comics meant to represent Chan’s oeuvre. The book is the brainchild of Singaporean cartoonist Sonny Liew, who created the volume as a survey of his fictional countryman Charlie Chan Hock Chye’s long comics career. ![]()
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