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    Myth of the Stone: 20th Anniversary Edition
    Myth of the Stone: 20th Anniversary Edition
    Myth of the Stone: 20th Anniversary Edition
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    Myth of the Stone: 20th Anniversary Edition

    By Gwee Li Sui

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    Selected by the National University of Singapore Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences as one of 85 Landmark Books


    A curious young boy opens a door and is thrust into the Architrave, a fantastical, fractured world upheld by four Columns. Arriving as the Great Gateway War draws to a start, Li-Hsu must fight bravely alongside a host of strange creatures in order to find his way back home.

    Gwee Li Sui’s Myth of the Stone, first published in 1993, is an endearing tale of one unlikely hero’s journey through an unfamiliar landscape. Epigram Books presents a 20th Anniversary Edition of Singapore’s first full-length graphic novel in English, with improved art and bonus features including notes from the author and new short stories that further explore the magical world of the Architrave.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEpigram Books
    Release dateDec 9, 2016
    ISBN9789810766177
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      Myth of the Stone - Gwee Li Sui

      Copyright © 2013 by Gwee Li Sui

      All rights reserved. Published in Singapore by Epigram Books.

      www.epigrambooks.sg

      Edited by Aditi Shivaramakrishnan

      Layout by Andrew Lee

      Published with the support of

      National Library Board, Singapore Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      Gwee, Li Sui, 1970-

      Myth of the stone / Gwee Li Sui. – Revised edition. – Singapore : Epigram Books, 2013.

      pages cm

      ISBN : 978-981-07-6616-0 (pbk.)

      ISBN : 978-981-07-6617-7 (e-book)

      1. War – Comic books, strips, etc.

      2. Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.

      I. Title.

      PN6790

      741.595957 -- dc23 OCN858890761

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      First Epigram Books Edition

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      First published by East Asia Book Services, 1993

      INTRODUCTION

      Tucked above the front door of BooksActually, the little indie bookstore, is a book placed so high that only a good-sized giant could reach it. If you have sharp eyes, you can kind of make out the title.

      I was peering at it when Pico, the bookstore’s cat, idled up next to me.

      Hey, whose book is that? I asked.

      "Oh, that’s Gwee’s Myth of the Stone." (Long-time visitors to BooksActually can attest that the cats there talk. You just need to listen.)

      Gwee? Internet commentator/lecturer/editor/poet/assorted multi-hyphenate?

      Yes, that Gwee. Pico then strolled off to look for kibble, or to read a book.

      It seems that, before Gwee became what he is today, he was a cartoonist. Gwee had produced one of the first graphic novels in Singapore back in 1993, but the book was swallowed up by publishing missteps, and only a few copies now remain out in the wild. The book became as much a myth as the story itself.

      Well, fortunate reader, now you have the chance to read it finally. Gwee’s lost masterpiece has been rejuvenated after he went on a quest to retrieve it from the mists of time or dust-strewn boxes, or both. Spiders were defeated, old wounds reopened, and a layer of dust thick enough to bring about a new haze alert wiped off. New material has also been added, and the result is a reborn Myth of the Stone that one hopes will help the work gain the recognition it truly deserves.

      The book itself has been well worth the hype. It is a mix of Biblical myth, Tolkien and Carroll, featuring creatures of Asian legends, such as the kappa, and even an appearance by merlions. Gwee has tapped into the vein from which myths, original and new, emerge.

      Like Gwee, the story has more depth than one might initially see, and I encourage you to read it again, upside down, and in both public and private places. Gwee has created

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