Southeast Asia recently has risen in prominence in the U.S. comics scene, with Malaysian artist Lat seeing his seminal cartoons released stateside by First Second and the Filipino Leinil Yu drawing Marvel's summer blockbuster Secret Invasion. There's perhaps no better time, then, for an anthology of comics from the region.
That was the mindset of Sonny Liew, who was born in Malaysia before attending Cambridge University. He keeps busy illustrating for publishers such as Vertigo and Slave Labor Graphics and contributing to Flight, but in his extra time has pulled together artists from Southeast Asia to contribute to Liquid City, the new anthology published by Image Comics.
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