Tag Archive | "culture"

Singapore Comics Special: Ten Sticks and One Rice Review

Thursday, February 7, 2013

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Ten Sticks and One Rice Oh Yong Hwee and Koh Hong Teng Epigram Books If Miel’s Scenegapore charted the history and development of Singapore, Oh Yong Hwee and Koh Hong Teng’s Ten Sticks and One Rice is a social commentary of the country in the 1970′s and an exploration of one of the features (as Oh Yong Hwee explained [...]

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Singapore Special Director’s Commentary: Oh Yong Hwee talks Ten Sticks and One Rice, hawkers and social history

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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Continuing with a look at Singaporean comic creators and their work, today we have a director’s commentary from Oh Yong Hwee on his and Koh Hong Teng’s book Ten Sticks and One Rice: We started talking about doing a story on Singapore’s hawkers 6 years ago, as we felt that there are many touching stories about [...]

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Singapore Comics Special: Scenegapore by Miel

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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Scenegapore Miel Epigram Books After Sonny Liew’s introductory, scene-setting interview yesterday, here we take a look at the books Epigram have produced with local Singaporean talent, beginning with Miel’s Scenegapore. Here’s the man himself to tell you a little more about the book, followed by my review: “When I was planning my book- I wanted to [...]

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Capes and Culture

Friday, September 9, 2011

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Today we have a fascinating article for you from our newest guest, Colin Smith. I imagine quite a few of you will be familiar with Colin’s very fine blog Too Busy Thinking About My Comics, where he regularly posts some very erudite pieces musing on the medium. I’m delighted to welcome Colin here with his [...]

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Somersault – we love culture

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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As regular readers know we love a bit of culture and many is the time the blog crew have whiled away an evening in the Gentlemen & Ladies Cultured Cartoonist Club discussing the inter-relational nature of post-modernist self referential avant-garde work to the sequential arts medium over our port and cigars. Or something. Culture exists [...]

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