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Malaysia.

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Malaysia

1979

In short

Malaysian comics are called komik.

Malay comic books of the 1950s and 1960s survive in the British Library, and from the late 1970s humour titles sold widely: the magazine Gila-Gila (1978) reached 200,000 copies an issue, and Lat's The Kampung Boy (1979) sold more than 100,000 copies in its first year.

Comics from Malaysia

From the shelf

  • Cover of The Kampung Boy
  • Cover of Gempak Starz
  • Cover of Lawak Kampus
  • Cover of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
  • Cover of Ge Mei Lia
  • Cover of My Giant Nerd Boyfriend
  • Cover of BoBoiBoy Galaxy Season 2

Malaysia in numbers · 01 • 04

60

22

1979

2000s

Artists

Artists from Malaysia in the archive.

Comics from Malaysia in the archive.

The Kampung Boy, the earliest comic from Malaysia in the archive.

The decade when the most new comics from Malaysia began.

komik

komik · Comics from Malaysia

History

Malaysia in 3 chapters

  1. 1950

    to 1969

    Chapter 01

    Malay comic books

    Malay comic books from the 1950s and 1960s are held in the British Library and have been the subject of an academic study.

  2. 1978

    to 1999

    Chapter 02

    Gila-Gila and Lat

    Gila-Gila launched in 1978 and peaked at 200,000 copies an issue, and Lat's The Kampung Boy followed in 1979. Ujang, launched in 1993, overtook Gila-Gila by 2000.

    Cover of The Kampung Boy

  3. 2000

    to 2015

    Chapter 03

    Ujang

    Ujang ended when its publisher, MOY Publications, closed on 6 August 2015.

Essentials

The comics to know

Essentials

The people to know

Artists

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Comics

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