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Scenes of Malaysian Life
Author(s)Lat
Current status/scheduleEnded
Launch date1974
End date2014
Alternate name(s)Lat & Easy
Publisher(s)New Straits Times

Scenes of Malaysian Life (also known as Lat & Easy from 2002 to 2014) is a comic strip series by Malaysian cartoonist, Mohammad Nor Khalid, better known as Lat and published in the Malaysian English-language daily newspaper, the New Straits Times. The comic strip, which ran for 40 years, from 1974 to 2014, illustrated the common way of life of the multicultural Malaysia. Some of his cartoons in the series also compiled in his comic books.

Background

In 1973, Lat, who was then a crime reporter at the New Straits Times, submitted his comic strip for the Hong Kong-based Asia Magazine with the traditional life culture as the main subject where he drews a cartoon and provide the dialogues about a traditional Malay Muslim ritual, the circumcision. It drews attention from the-then New Straits Times editor-in-chief, Lee Siew Yee, who later offered him a permanent column cartoonist role in the newspaper. Lat then taking that position specially created for him by the newspaper's then editor, Abdul Samad Ismail. This gave birth to the Scenes of Malaysian Life series where his first job is to highlighted the daily lives of Malaysian multiracial culture and current affairs. He described it as a "something very innovative at the time".

The first cartoon that Lat drew in the series is the "Perak Wedding", which was published in March 1974. After returned to Malaysia from his 4-month study at the St Martin's School of Art in London, Lat changed the format of Scenes of Malaysian Life into an editorial cartoon series. In 1984, partly from a desire to step away from the public limelight, Lat resigned from the New Straits Times to become a freelancer, but continued to draw Scenes of Malaysian Life for the newspaper. In 1995, Scenes of Malaysian Life absent briefly from the New Straits Times as Lat decided to take a sabbatical for a year. The series resumed publication the following year until it finally ended in 2014.

Reception

The comic strip was well-received and propelled Lat's work to a greater heights. In the 2000s, the series ran three times per week in the New Straits Times. Some of his works in Scenes of Malaysian Life also have been compiled into comic books which proven to be successful and well-received.

Ilham Gallery describe the series as "a truly Malaysian narrative and perfectly pictured the life of a nation".

References

  1. Muliyadi 2004, p. 216.
  2. ^ Berita Harian, Dua kekuatan jadi rahsia 2018.
  3. ^ Ipoh Echo, Kampung Boy and Beyond 2020.
  4. New Straits Times, Lat recalls life 2020.
  5. The Straits Times, Knowing Lat 1986, p. 6.
  6. Willmott 1989.
  7. Pameran Retrospektif Lat 2003, p. 118.
  8. Jayasankaran 1999, p. 36.
  9. ^ Lat 1994, p. 25.
  10. History of New Straits Times 2007.
  11. Nor-Afidah 2002.
  12. Crossings: Datuk Lat 2003, 27:05–27:23.
  13. Muliyadi 2003a.
  14. Muliyadi 2004, p. 213.
  15. The Borneo Post, Appreciating our multiculturalism 2019.
  16. Crossings: Datuk Lat 2003, 30:35–31:15.
  17. Lat 1994, p. 34.
  18. Lent 1999.
  19. Crossings: Datuk Lat 2003, 38:45–39:35.
  20. Lat 1994, p. 35.
  21. New Straits Times, Lat on sabbatical 1995.
  22. Rohani 2005, p. 390.
  23. Bissme 2009.
  24. New Straits Times, Lat shares his thoughts 2020.
  25. Pilcher & Brooks 2005, p. 125.
  26. Ilham Gallery 2015.

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