LAT (Mohamed Nor Khalid)
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LAT (Mohamed Nor Khalid)
...Lat characters portray the colorful lives and unique blend of Malaysian
multi-racial society.
LAT (Mohamed Nor Khalid) is one of the most-read cartoonists in Southeast Asia,
and with the continued, widespread reprinting and translating of his cartoons,
he is gaining worldwide fame.
His annual compilations of his strips into books have been extremely successful
with one, Kampung Boy, selling more than 100,000 copies. The first print of
60,000 over copies sold out within four months and it had to be reprinted. For a
country like Malaysia, that response is a big amount. His comics have a very
wide range for an audience including children, intellectuals, and politicians
who are fans
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11 August 2007 : Cartoonist Datuk Mohamad Nor Khalid, better known simply as Lat, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Anthropology and Sociology by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) on Saturday 11 August 2007.
More about Mohamad Nor Khalid the cartoonist....
LAT : "Suddenly I became famous in the late 70’s because of my Scenes of Malaysian Life cartoons in the New Straits Times English daily........................The first embassy to send me an invitation was none other than the USA......under the International Visitors’ Program....early 1977....I zig-zagged across the continent...Elvis was alive..............The locals thought I was a Hopi..........."
Read full CAMPBELL INTERVIEWS LAT: Part 2 at
firstsecondbooks.typepad.com
Air Asia Boeing 737 with livery of Lat's cartoons.
"Lat epitomizes all we believe in to create a Malaysian identity...The Lat characters portray the colorful lives and unique blend of our multi-racial society... Everyone reads Lat, everyone can fly on AirAsia.”
Tony Fernandes
Group Chief Executive Officer, AirAsia Sdn Bhd
THE KAMPUNG BOY
A chubby man with unruly hair and dressed in a sarong greets visitors to
his traditional Malay house on stilts. With its doors and windows flung wide
open to welcome both the breeze and guests, the house looks cool and inviting
This is the house of kampong boy Mamat, a cartoon character created by Dato Haji
Mohammad Nor bin Khalid, famously known as Lat...
"HELLO!"
Flat-headed, fritzy-haired and chubby, Lat has a similar mop of untidy
hair and black-rimmed glasses, it is easy to imagine him in a sarong, sitting on
the porch of the house on stilts, fanning himself with a coconut leaf and
waiting for visitors....
Lat published his first comic book, Tiga Sekawan (Three Friends) in 1964 when he
was in his Primary 6. By 1968 he was publishing comic strips in local newspapers
such as Berita Minggu, Pemimpin, and Dewan Pelajar. ..
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