Tag Archive | "Singapore"

Sinagpore Comics Special: Monsters, Miracles and Mayonnaise

Friday, February 8, 2013

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Today is the final day in our snapshot of comics in Singapore and we finish, rather fittingly, with a review of Drewscape’s (aka Andrew Tan) collection of stories and shorts for Epigram, Monsters, Miracles and Mayonnaise. Remember that reading order of the books I talked about? Well as the final installment of the works released thus far, [...]

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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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Singapore Comics Special: Big Interview: Sonny Liew

Monday, February 4, 2013

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I’ve been a fan of Sonny Liew’s ever since I saw his illustrations for Tommy Kovac’s comic adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, for which he was Eisner-nominated.  He is perhaps best known for his work on the Vertigo series My Faith in Frankie with Mike Carey and Marvel Universe comics. Personally, I think his frankly excellent Xeric award-winning [...]

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