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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