Kampung Boy: Yesterday and Today
Front cover of the 1993 first print | |
| Author | Lat |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiographical comic |
| Publisher | Berita Publishing |
Publication date | 16 January 1993 |
| Publication place | Malaysia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 148 pp (first edition) |
| OCLC | 932559358 |
| 741.59595 | |
| Preceded by | Town Boy |
Kampung Boy: Yesterday and Today is a graphic novel by Lat that retells Lat's childhood as depicted in The Kampung Boy (1979), but this time focusing on the leisure time and activities practiced by the cartoonist's family and friends. The book sees Lat once again using the setting of The Kampung Boy to compare and contrast the differences between Malaysian childhood experiences in the 1950s and 1980s. Published and released on 16 January 1993 by Berita Publishing, it was a spin-off of The Kampung Boy and was a commercial and critical success. A Japanese edition of the book was published in 1998.