Sonny Liew
Author
Language
English
Description
"Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye. Now in his early 70s as he looks back on his career, Chan has spent a lifetime making comics in his native Singapore since he was a boy of 16, in 1954. The artist doubles here as both the narrator and the subject matter, as his life story parallels the changes in Singapore over five decades since the war. The evolution of his artwork mirrors the evolution of both his homeland and the comic book medium itself. The myriad...
Author
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity: the Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang has revived this characte\r in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Presents, in graphic novel format, a tale of English country manners in which two sisters, one sensible and one impulsive, wrestle with their attractions to unsuitable men after they are forced to leave their family home following the death of their father.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Caroline Sharp gave up her humanity to gain incredible shape-shifting abilities--powers she used to save the world time and time again as the superhero Chrysalis. But as the years wore on, she began to lose control of the elemental forces coursing through her body, making her dangerously unstable and forcing her removal from ALPHA 13, the covert government agency that created her. Now, although she can barely hold herself together, Caroline's unique...
Series
Publisher
KaBOOM!, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of short comics about the Land of Ooo features such stories as the Ice King's heart calling it quits and the entire Breakfast Kingdom being locked out of their homes when Finn and Jake drop the key to the city in the Cappuccino River." --