Website: artofcharliechan.com
A winner of 3 Eisner Awards, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye tells the history of Singapore through the lens of a fictional comics artist.
The book was the first graphic novel to win the Singapore Literature Prize in 2016, and was lauded by many, including the Economist, the Washington Post, Publishers Weekly and the A.V. Club, as one of the Best Graphic Novels of the year, with the NPR's John Power describing it as "a startlingly brilliant tour de force... at once dizzyingly meta and deeply heartfelt".
It won Eisner awards for Best Writer/Artist, Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia, and Best Publication Design, and was nominated in a further three categories - Best Letterer, Best Colorist, and Best Graphic Album - New .
The book was thrust into the national spotlight in Singapore after the National Arts Council withdrew its grant for the book just before it was launched, claiming that it breached funding guidelines through its "retelling of Singapore's history (which) potentially undermines the authority or legitimacy of the Government".
The Young Animal line’s cast of curious characters is getting a new friend: Eternity Girl. Kim & Kim writer Magdalene Visaggio and Eisner winner Sonny Liew (The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye) will tell the story of Caroline Sharp, a former secret agent who can’t die — so she decides to destroy the universe.
This six-issues series launches March 2018 from DC’s Young Animal.
Cover art for Eternity Girl #1, written by Magdalene Visaggio, art by myself, out in 2018 from DC Young Animal :)
“Combining high-concept sci-fi with a truly memorable take on depression and mental illness, Eternity Girl is the rare title that is capable of simultaneous indie and mainstream comic appeal and convention, all the while subverting expectations of both. Even with just its sophomore effort, Eternity Girl #2 is already feels like a series destined for best-of-the-year lists. Visaggio, Liew, and Chuckry are so in sync that this feels less like an ordinary narrative and more of a sequential art experience, one that no comics fan should miss.” - Newsarama
Doctor Fate by Paul Levitz and Sonny Liew
Doctor Fate, written by DC legend Paul Levitz, featuring Khalid “Kent” Nassour, Egyptian-American first-year med student as the titular hero.
3 volumes of the collected trades now available :)
The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew
Gene (National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and MacArthur Fellow!) had discovered the Green Turtle comics by Chu Hing - in the original comics, the Green Turtle would start to explain his origins and some emergency would always crop up - so Gene decided to tell that story in The Shadow Hero, and had me along for the ride :)
It was nominated for several Eisners, and in 2017, we did a short story as part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which was given away with Kids Meals at Panda Express :)
The adventures of street urchins Atari and Oliver, and their friends Mr. Bon Bon, Misha, Pin Head and more!
Malinky Robot was a Xeric Grant reciepient, a winner of the Nantes Utopiales Comics Prize and appeared in the Flight anthologies (edited by Kazu Kibuishi), with collections published by SLG and Image Comics.
Wonderland by Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew
Published by SLG and Disney Press
A comic set in the world of Wonderland after Alice leaves, starring the White Rabbit's maid, Mary Ann!
A colloboration between Disney Press and SLG, it was written by Tommy Kovac.
The series was nominated for an Eisner Award in the pencilling/inking category, but is sadly now out of print.
Georgette Chen: Warm Nights Deathless Days by Sonny Liew
A comics biography of pioneer artist Georgette Chen, commissioned by the National Gallery. Done in a comic strip format!
Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility by Nancy Butler and Sonny Liew
An adaptation of the Jane Austen novel from Marvel comics.
Before this, I'd worked on some covers for their Pride & Prejudice adaptation.
Working on this meant purchasing a lot of books on Regency era fashion and architecture, as well as watching many versions of the TV and movie adaptations :p
My Faith in Frankie by Mike Carey, March Hempel and Sonny Liew
A DC Vertigo Mini-series, written by Mike Carey, with inks and covers by Marc Hempel :)
The story featured a God with only one worshipper, caught in all sorts of relationship triangles.
The single issues were full colour, but the trade was a black and white digest, an experimentation with taking on a manga format, and became sorta a prototype for the short-lived DC Minx line.
Illustrations both commercial and personal.
Sarah H.S.
Portraits of National a Para Swimmers for the 2019 Worlds Meet.
Jeez Lewis.
Illustration for Pangdenomium’s adaptation of Peter and the Starcatcher.
Illustration displayed at Book Kinokuniya (Takashimaya) in anticipation of the Wonder Woman movie. Digital.
Singapore's former Deputy Prime Ministerand long-time MP of the Rochor Constituency. For a collection of photographs of Rochor Centre before its demolition to make way for a highway.
Illustration for a New York Times article by Umapagan Ampikaipakan
Various Covers :)
From Liquid City to Spiderman :)
For the Black List. https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/best-movies-the-black-list-2018.html
From "Star Trek: Waypoint Special", a one-shot special issue in the Star Trek: Waypoint series. Published by IDW Publishing, it was released in December 2018.
Political cartoons of various sorts.
Tales of a Lee Bee Wah.
Workers, Party!
Bilahari Kausikan.
