But this is very much his own work, his story, and a complex intriguing one at that. Sonny Liew has done lots of work before this, like collaborating with Gene Luen Yang on Shadow Hero, doing illustrations for Wonderland, Marvel’s Sense and Sensibility etc. Probably the most successful graphic novel to come out of Singapore (Publisher Weekly named it one of the best comics of 2016).
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye – Sonny Liew
I bought The Complete Persepolis before I moved to the US so that’s about 8 years ago. It includes appendices of important political documents relating to the Shan states and tables of the ruling princes and family trees.I have to credit Persepolis for being the first graphic novel I ever personally bought. The Moon Princess is an important record of a tumultuous period in the history of a troubled country. Studying at Cambridge, Sanda, met her English husband, Peter Simms and later they lived in Rangoon against a background of political upheaval until the end of democratic rule forced them to leave their home and their country, never to return. It is a personal account of a family caught up in political turmoil which led to the loss of a brother and a father, the first during the coup and the latter, in military custody. She describes growing up in the Shan States and records the changes that occurred during the periods of British colonial rule, war and Japanese occupation, the return of the British administration, the troubled years after Burma's independence and finally, the military takeover in 1962. Narrated by the eldest daughter of Sao Shwe Thaike, the Prince of Yawnghwe, The Moon Princess recounts both the story of her early life and at the same time provides a fascinating memoir of her father who, in 1948, became first President of the Union of Burma after the country gained its independence.
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