Posted in literature on Mar 13th, 2013
Some of the pre-war covers in an earlier post were mis-attributed to Hul Sophon, who set me straight in an interview not too long ago. http://jinja.apsara.org/2007/11/pulp-cambodia-novel-covers-hul-sophon/ He notes that both he and Uth Roeun had friendly competition with a locally based cover artist of Chinese background, called Ung Yuksuy. Little is known about this artist, [...]
Posted in academia, cambodia, comics, visual art on Nov 15th, 2012
Above: book seller at Phnom Penh’s Psar O’Russey. Some thoughts following on from Jason Dittmer and Katherine Brickell’s commentary on Cambodian comics copyright. (You might want to read these links first.) http://siewphewyeung.org.kh/newsprint-comics-at-psar-orussey/ http://mediageography.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/comic-books-and-copyright-cambodian-artistic-heritage-at-risk/ In Cambodia’s 1980s, the boom in narrative comics unfolded in an informal economy. That meant some artists printed and published themselves (perhaps [...]
Posted in cambodge, cambodia, comics, visual art on Sep 28th, 2012
In the past I ‘ve blogged about Hul Sophon’s sublime novel covers. Today we were given a piece of autobiographical art from the man himself, for his profile on Our Books Cambodia. Life is sweet. http://www.siewphewyeung.org.kh/artists/hul-sophon/
Posted in literature, Other Goodies, visual art on Nov 16th, 2007
(Crying from Remorse by Sor Sornose. Cambodia Rocks!) So why follow the literary scene in Cambodia? Cool discoveries like these. The above image is by Hul Sophon, who has worked in illustration both before and after the years of war. In addition to his primary work on covers he does many other kinds of art, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2005
A day at the ‘Department of Comics’ Friday July 22 8am Artist and teacher Y Lida shows up at our office with the final page of the Heritage Watch comic. The staff have been going all out with the translation of the comic. The story was written by Dougald O’Reilly. At the October 2004 Exposition, [...]
