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Just passing around as usual in the web I found this interesting interview done by Lat (found it Lat it dated 2007 but who care I found it !!!)


Directly from FIRST SECOND BOOK main blog:

Eddie Campbell interviews Mohammed Nor Khalid, aka LAT, author of KAMPUNG BOY, and the upcoming TOWN BOY. Lat is revered throughout Southeast Asia for his work of many years as the greatest cartoonist from Malaysia. First Second is honored to launch its author on author interviews with this gem in three parts -- special thanks to both of them.

Part of his interview:

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..........."

CAMPBELL INTERVIEWS LAT: Part 1

CAMPBELL INTERVIEWS LAT: Part 2

CAMPBELL INTERVIEWS LAT: Part 3

Check also Eddie Campbell blogspot

Just found my faourite 80's show

The Highwayman first episode.

This show only have 10 episode. I don't know why but some one said it been shown in the wrong time in US so doesn't get many follower.

I love it ...see the truck change to chopper ;]

The must have reward for our author

Lat has been nominated for 2009 "Garden State Teen Book Awards" in the non-fiction Grade 5+ category organised annually by the New Jersey Library Association in the United States of America.

This really mean something for me as the first Malaysian cartoonist been award in US soil or as the first Malaysian biographer alias author of Malaysian ethnic scene getting this award is never been realise by anyone else except by the hand of Lat our ticklish director of Malaysian culture.(a proud moment for me to sing Negaraku right now)

The New Jersey Library Association describe Lat comic as "a memoir of a growing-up Muslim in a Malaysian kampung (village) in the 1950s. Told in a graphic novel format, this story is at times touching, at times humourous and always entertaining."

Truly right indeed can't say anything but crying right now.