Graphic novelist Sonny Liew’s well-loved fictional cartoonist Charlie Chan Hock Chye is getting a real retrospective at risograph studio Knuckles & Notch’s Chaos Gallery at Waterloo Centre.

On view is a chronological showcase of Chan’s comic oeuvre – originals from the satirical animal world of Bukit Chapalang to home-grown superhero Roachman. The exhibition’s centre of gravity is the clutch of four oil portraits – including two of Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew – that hang on the walls.

Liew’s hand is behind all of these Chan creations, some of which are on public view for the first time.

Chan’s retrospective is just part one of the three-chapter exhibition across spaces important to print and comic history, with the other two chapters showing at Bras Basah Complex.

At Basheer Graphic Books, witness how Liew’s The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2015) went from thumbnail to final art.

At comic bookshop InkInk Collectibles, learn about the book’s reception and see Liew’s three Eisner Awards. Liew’s graphic novel has inspired other artists and visitors can catch an exclusive first glimpse at the concept art behind Finding Pictures’ animated feature film adaptation.