- Kampung Boy
Kampung Boy is a critically acclaimed graphic novel by
Mohammad Nor Khalid published in America by First Second Books in 2007.ummary
The graphic novel is an autobiography of Lat centering on his childhood in Malaysia. It was first published in Malaysia in 1979. An American edition was released by First Second Books in 2007. Interestingly, the American edition differs slightly from the original: a critical moment in the latter occurs when the protagonist is struck by his father in a moment of anger, the sequence is redrawn and toned down in the American version with the violence implied rather than shown.
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A follow-up book, Town Boy, was published in October of 2007.
Other Media
An animated version of the story was made in Los Angeles by Matinee Entertainment in 1997. It was aired in the U.K. on the POP channel between November 2003 and August 2005. It features the adventures of the eponymous hero Jonny Kampung, Malaysian stilt village-dweller, known to his friends as Kampung Boy. He is an expert sushi maker who travels the world providing sushi for restaurants in extraordinary circumstances. Accompanied by the nameless 'little black dog', he continually thwarts the attempts of his nemesis Derechora (supported by his two henchmen Rik Eedles and Ged Harken) to ruin his sushi using their psychic powers. Kampung receives help from the mysterious 'Col-Linn', a trumpet-shaped ghost, with a deep rivalry of his fellow psychic Derechora.
Episode list
1: Prawn Fishing
2: The Little Black Dog
3: O'Reilly's Restaurant
4: The Psychic Sushi
5: Col-Linn to the Rescue
6: Kampung Ping Pong
7: Concorde
8: Kuala Lumpur Shuffle
9: Derechora's Evil Scheme
10: O'Reily Strikes Again
11: Yvette's Taste Test
12: Poisoned in Svalbard
13: Last Cab to Danger
14: Sushi Picnic
15: Up, Up and Away
16: Derechora's Dance of Doom
17: Snail Mail
18: Where's Derechora?
19: Iceberg
20: Home Again
References
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813725/ IMDB]
* [http://www.readaboutcomics.com/2006/08/30/kampung-boy/ Read About Comics]
* [http://kidslit.menashalibrary.org/archives/013052.html Kids Lit]
* [http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/01/?p=3609 Newsarama]
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