Cover of Kapung Boy by Lat showing an illustration of a house in a tropical area drawn in olive green. In the foreground there is a goofy looking little kid with fuzzy hair jumping up and down.

Notices where this attachment appears

1. Embed this notice
   Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2026 06:32:20 JST Jessamyn

   in reply to

   Book 51: Kampung Boy. This graphic novel is a classic of the genre which somehow I had never come across until I found it in a local LFL. It's an excellent story about growing up in a rural village in Malaysia as a Muslim kid at the same time as the rural ways are disappearing. The drawing is goofy and expressive and there is so much going on in each page it was fun to flip through it. It highlights just how isolated rural communities were and yet how much was still going on in each one.