Lat The Kampung Boy
Kampung boy is a malaysian animated television series first broadcast in 1997.
Lat the kampung boy. It is about the adventures of a young boy mat and his life in a kampung village. Beginning with his birth and the offerings given by his family in honour of his birth kampung boy follows a boy named mat through childhood misbehaviour life on his father s rubber plantation and muslim traditions and ceremonies drawing out the humour and comedy in even the. This childhood memoir of a boy growing up in rural malaysia in the 1950s and 1960s is non fiction at its funniest. The story opens with his birth in a kampung in perak malaysia and the traditional rituals surrounding the event.
Jul 24 2016 explore winnie jajambo s board lat the kampung boy on pinterest. His adventures and mischief making fishing trips religious study and work on his family s rubber plantation. Kampung boy showcases lots of real life ups and downs of rural lifestyle in the typical kampung. See more ideas about lat cartoon comic artist.
The book is an autobiographical account of the artist s life telling of his adventures in the jungles and tin mines his circumcision family and school life. With masterful economy worthy of charles schultz lat recounts the life of mat a muslim boy growing up in rural malaysia in the 1950s. His comics appear regularly in malaysian newspapers always poking fun at malaysians the malaysian attitude and plain everyday life in malaysia. Kampung boy is a favorite of millions of readers in southeast asia with masterful economy worthy of charles schultz lat recounts the life of mat a muslim boy growing up in rural malaysia in the 1950s.
The recitation of blessings the singing of religious songs and the observance of ceremonies. Dato lat the creator of kampung boy is a very popular cartoonist in malaysia. The series is adapted from the best selling graphical novel the kampung boy an autobiography of local cartoonist lat comprising two seasons and 26 episodes one of which won an annecy award the series was first shown on. Lat has been consistently praised as having a unifying effect on malaysians by drawing on the common experiences of the kampung to.
The widely known malaysian cartoonist lat delineates his childhood from birth until departure from the kampung the term for malaysian village in his autobiographical graphic novel the kampung boy 1977. The kampung boy also known as lat the kampung boy or simply kampung boy is a graphic novel by lat about a young boy s experience growing up in rural perak in the 1950s.