Abstract
Over the past few years, there has seen some renewed serious interest in comics in terms of the humour and narrative aspect. However not much can be said of comics as a representation of the cultural mores of the community. This study looks at how a local comic writer frames his subjective viewpoints, and how he stages them graphically and visually in his comics. Using Rodriguez and Dimitrova’s (2011) four-tiered model, this paper sets out to analyse how Lat frames culture in his comics in 5 selected comic strips culled from online sources. The findings indicated that Lat has a tendency to frame his cartoons in terms of a Malaysianised landscape. Of interest is the way in which he portrays the Malaysian as a melting pot of multi-cultural community through a sharp and yet seemingly tongue-in-cheek portrayal of their values and behaviours. Keywords: comics; culture; framing; visual language; representations
Highlights
The importance of culture lies in the fact that it is a link between people and their value systems
Chang’s findings revealed “that Lat’s cartoon had successfully traced the transformation of the cultural landscape in Malaysia” (2014, p. 51).This paper looks at the way the socio-cultural contestations are reflected and represented in selected Lat’s cartoons. It explores the manner in which Lat stages the cultural landscape that articulates the Malaysian ideologies as seen through his eyes
This study is an analysis of how a renown local Malaysian writer, Datuk Mohammad Nor Khalid, better known as Lat, frames cultural norms and behaviours of Malaysians through his comic drawings
Summary
The importance of culture lies in the fact that it is a link between people and their value systems. 13) where each ethnic group borrows certain elements from each other’s culture such as food and style of cooking as well as way of dressing It is this scenario of constant integration that resulted in the emergence of the Malaysian form of multicultural synergies, and this uniqueness is often depicted by local cartoonists in their comics, notably Lat and C.W. Kee (resident cartoonist of Kee’s World in The Star newspaper). From newspaper he branched into books; one of his well-known narrative cartoon is his stories of Kampung Boy (Countryside boy). 51).This paper looks at the way the socio-cultural contestations are reflected and represented in selected Lat’s cartoons It explores the manner in which Lat stages the cultural landscape that articulates the Malaysian ideologies as seen through his eyes
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