Charlie Chan Hock Chye, une vie dessinée

Sonny Liew’s Charlie Chan Hock Chye, une vie dessinée (2017–present, Urban Comics) is a single-issue graphic novel that blends biography with Singapore’s political history, presented as the fictional memoir of a forgotten cartoonist. Through Liew’s own evocative art and writing, the book chronicles Chan’s imagined career from the 1950s onward, using pastiche and satire to explore censorship, national identity, and the role of comics in society. A landmark work from the award-winning creator, it challenges how history is recorded and who gets to tell it.