Comics : Kampung Boy

a comics by LAT (Malaysia / 1979)

The childhood of LAT in his Kampung (village) during the Fifties, in the valley of Kinta in Perak (Malaysia).
From his birth to the baths in the river close to the village, his circumcision, his life in family, his friends...
A rare and significant diving in Malaysia of the Fifties, seen by a child, a fearsome testimony on the life in the Malaysian villages at the time where the country was not yet in full expansion...

LAT

Mohammad Nor Bin Khali (LAT) was born in 1951 in Kota Baru, a small village (kampung) in the north of Malaysia.
He began his professional career in 1964, at the 13 years old : he had sent his drawings to an editor who, persuaded that the author was an adult, proposed to publish them.
In Malaysia, LAT is so famous that the McDONALD firm has even open a "Kampung Burger"!

You’ll learn much more about LAT while going on the page which devotes to him by encyclopaedia WIKIPEDIA....

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