Meet Benjamin Chee, Writer/ Artist of Comic Book Charsiew Space!

As someone growing up in Red Dot Island, where most people are food-crazy, reading Benjamin Chee's self-published comic book "Charsiew Space" was like nomming on comfort food. To be more exact, it was like savouring yummy local dishes while nonchalantly trotting about on a wild space adventure.

In a sector of a certain galaxy, pork including the traditional roasted version called charsiew, has been banned. Sow, a shrewd elderly Ah Mm (i.e. "old lady") teams up with a space smuggler and his robot to bring the delicacy back on the menu, but not without re-pork-ussions from the citizens of Pig Planet.

Red Dot Diva thought "Charsiew Space" was such a lively and hilarious comic that she recently sent a copy of it to Paul Levitz (formerly the president and publisher of DC Comics) as a small birthday gift . He thought Benjamin's art was "charming".

Today is #PaulLevitz's birthday. If you could sit him down to talk about the history of comics, especially in DC, and in other various general topics, you will learn and be enlightened by so many things and information. He is a rare kind of man (so far in my short life) who lights up thousands of my brain cells at one time. I sent Paul a copy of my friend's little self-published comic #CharsiewSpace as a small birthday gift and he said, "Benjamin's art is charming, and it's making me itch for a local NY restaurant called Pig Heaven..." Happy birthday, Paul!! 🎈🎂 🎈 🎉 Wishing you more fun and happy birthday years to come! #Comics #Singapore #Malaysia #artist #writer #CharsiewSpace #books

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She also wants to share the love for this delightful piece of work to the comic book geeks out there, and enticed Benjamin (via a portion of fragrant charsiew) to answer a few nosy questions: