Video
Early Malay Comics
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Culture
29 January 2025
Did you know that Malay comics first appeared as editorial cartoons in local newspapers such as Warta Jenaka and Utusan Zaman in the 1930s? Find out how these cartoons and caricatures paved the way for full-fledged Malay comic books published in Singapore later in the 1950s, and what the earliest titles were.
This video is part of BiblioAsia Reels, a series that tells interesting stories on Singapore’s history in five minutes. View the full playlist here.