"We always make extra efforts to explain to affected parties," he said. Grants are withdrawn very infrequently, said Mr Khor, adding in his letter on Wednesday that the NAC has spoken to both the artist and the publisher on the rationale for the withdrawal. Some $6,400 of the grant has already been disbursed, according to the graphic novel's publisher Epigram Books, but this will be returned to the NAC.
"This approach goes against the spirit of artistic expression," Mr Low added.
The letter's writer, Mr Shawn Low, had described the NAC's failure to elaborate on the reasons for its move as "taking a seemingly 'schoolmaster' approach to the arts: 'Do something we deem wrong or inappropriate, and we will withdraw the support we had promised.'" He was responding to an earlier letter to Today, published on Monday, which had asked the NAC to explain why it had withdrawn the grant and to reconsider its decision.
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