Singapore.
Singapore
1947
Singapore's comics scene grew from a comics column in the Sunday Monitor in the 1980s and from the BigO fanzine.
Mr Kiasu ran from 1990 to 1999, and Sonny Liew's The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2015) won three Eisner Awards in 2017. The National Library Board publishes the closest thing to an official national list of Singapore comics.
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1947
2000s
Artists from Singapore in the archive.
Comics from Singapore in the archive.
Tunggadewa, the earliest comic from Singapore in the archive.
The decade when the most new comics from Singapore began.
comics
Singapore in 3 chapters
A short history you can leaf through. Click a page, use the arrow keys, or press Turn the page to read on.
Singapore.
3 chapters
Chapter 1
1980
to 1989
Column and fanzine
1980
to 1989
Chapter 01
Column and fanzine
The local scene grew from a comics column in the Sunday Monitor during the 1980s and then from the BigO fanzine.
1990
to 1999
Chapter 02
Mr Kiasu
Mr Kiasu, by Johnny Lau and team, ran from 1990 to 1999.
2015
to today
Chapter 03
Graphic novels and national recognition
Sonny Liew's The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2015) won three Eisner Awards in 2017, and the National Library Board co-curated a comics history exhibition with Liew in 2016. The Board published 'A List of Singapore Comics' in 2021 and a study of Singapore's pioneer cartoonists in 2024.
The comics to know
- Sunday Monitor comics column1980s newspaper comics column from which the scene grew.
- BigO2005 · websiteFanzine that followed the Sunday Monitor column.
- Mr Kiasu1990 · comic book seriesJohnny Lau and team. Ran from 1990 to 1999.
- The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye2015 · graphic novelSonny Liew. Three Eisner Awards in 2017.
The people to know
More artists from Singapore
- Colin Goh吴荣平cartoonist
- Andrew Tancomics artist
- Leslie Chewcartoonist
- Koh Hong Tengcomics artist
- Oh Yong Hweecomics writer
- Johnny Taycomics writer
- Yeo Hui Xuancomics writer
- Foo Swee ChinBorn 1977 · comics artist
- Heng Kim Song王锦松Born 1963 · editorial cartoonist
- Morgan Chua蔡興順1949 to 2018 · political cartoonist
- Otto FongBorn 1968 · comics artist
- Sean LamBorn 1978 · comics artist
More comics from Singapore
All 17 comics- Geungsi2021 · graphic novel
- Ten Sticks and One Ricegraphic novel
- Demon-cratic Singapore2011 · webcomic
- Anima: Age of the Robots2003 to 2013 · webcomic
- Dream Walkercomic book series
- Sir Fong's Adventures in Science2005 · comic book series
- Tunggadewa1947 · comic strip
- Monsters, Miracles & Mayonnaise2012 · graphic novel
- The Concrete Junglecomic strip
- Frankie and Poo1995 · comic strip
- Malinky Robotcomic book series
- Liquid City2008 to 2014 · comic book series