Lat first graphic novel Kampung Boy graphic novel cover. Published in 1979. Lat took three years to published this book.
Recently published is Lat Kampung Boy series in Arabic. Note the illustrations have changed towards the Arabic market.
Published in 1993, after successful sells with Kampung Boy.
1980
First published was in Utusan Malaysia, later continues in Berita Minggu since 1968. Keluarga Si Mamat runs for almost ten years.
˜Prosthetic memory,
as Connerton put it, derived mainly from a visual form, that can sustain the existence of imagined communities as effectively as does. According to Benedict Anderson this is what it is call the diffusion of printing. This does not only sits with print medium but also film and moving images, by virtue of their narrative sequence, their temporal immersion, insinuate the suggestion of ˜being there.
P. Connerton (Handbook of Material Culture)