![]() The current reaction to the book is revolving mainly around the brouhaha caused by the withdrawal of the NAC grant, but to concentrate on that misses the many other layers that this book has to offer. ![]() There is an aura here, the sense of nostalgia, the yearning of a history that never was as well as the timeline that Chan lived through, and an ever-present yearning for things not done, paths not taken, goals never quite achieved, and a soft demand as to why things can't be this way. If you're a comic book reader, you feel this book as much as you read it, and you can see the heart and mind of the artist, fictional and real, laid - if not quite bare, then at least sufficiently ajar - before you. ![]() I devoured it, messily, poring through the pages, lifting up my glasses to peer closely with long-sighted age at the details, flipping back and forth, forward and back in time, chuckling at the quiet humour, marveling at the subtle and not-so-subtle homages to style and history, raising it to look at it this way, then that way, at the multifaceted piece of work it is, knowing that repeated readings would throw up even more layers. ![]() I literally could not put this book down. ![]()
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