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Who should be among Singapore's pantheon of heroes?

As the nation slides into middle age, it is perhaps time to reflect on the kind of achievements we want to celebrate
Fri, Aug 11, 2017 - 5:50 AM

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Our own homegrown graphic novelist, Sonny Liew, has won Singapore's first ever Eisner Award, dubbed the "Oscars of Comics", at San Diego Comic-Con on July 22, 2017. In fact, Liew swept three Eisner Awards for his graphic novel-cum-political commentary, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye.
PHOTO: CHAN SHIUAN

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