Monday, September 13, 2021

Real, Real Gone

Enjoyed Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng's graphic novel Gone Case. Very impressed with Mr Koh's art work. Expressive in relation to character and beautifully detailed in terms of the scene-setting. Mr Chua's story-telling is effective, exploring the ordinary and mundane, the sheer banality of Singaporean life in the 1980s (or thereabouts, I assume) in ways that remind us that nothing is ordinary when viewed in close-up.

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