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Times and The New Paper were
also serialising comic strips by Chan
Man Loon, Kelvin Chan and Colin
Goh.

Con to hawk his portfolio. He drew
the Marvel Comics’ adaptation of
Sense and Sensibility (2011) and
also My Faith in Frankie (2004) for
Vertigo and Re-Gifters (2007) for
Around the time when Mr Kiasu was Minx.
at the height of its popularity in the
mid 1990s, a young Malaysian-born Liew does not make his living from
comic artist studying in Singapore,
drawing comics for the Singapore
Sonny Liew, started his cartooning
market. He draws mainly for
career drawing a satirical strip for
American comics companies such
a tabloid paper in Singapore. The
as SLG, Image and First Second,
link between the creators of Mr
and also sells his paintings. But he
Kiasu and Liew is that they show
is doing more Singapore-based
the commercial viability of doing
works in recent times. He just
comics in Singapore, especially the completed a story about Georgette
current success of Liew, who makes Chen, a pioneer in Singapore’s art
a more-than-decent living by
history. His next book will be The
drawing for DC and Marvel Comics. Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, to
be published by Epigram Books
Liew received the Young Artist
sometime in 2014.
Award from the Singapore National
Arts Council in 2010, the first comic
It is for this project that I introduced
book artist to do so, signaling
him to Koeh Sia Yong. Liew wanted
an acceptance of the art form
to find out more about the cartoons
in Singapore. Liew started out
of the 1950s and 1960s. But from
drawing a daily strip, Frankie and
his own output, he should already
Poo for The New Paper before
know the difference between him
going overseas for his studies. After and Koeh. The latter is from an
returning to Singapore to work for
earlier generation who believes
a few years, he went to the United
in the socialist cause. That era
States to study art. He managed
is gone. For those who started
to break into the American
drawing comics or cartoons in
mainstream comics market after
Singapore after 1990, hardly any
attending the San Diego Comic
of them deals with political themes
column three – ct lim

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