Lat

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lat
Occupation	Cartoonist
Date Of Birth	Mar 5, 1951(1951-03-05)
Age	73
Birthplace	Kota Bharu
Country	Malaysia
Birth City	Kelantan
Horoscope	Pisces

Lat Biography

Lat is one of the most popular and richest Cartoonist who was born on March 5, 1951 in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia.

Music has played a crucial part in Lat’s life since his youth; he revealed in an interview that listening to songs such as Peggy March’s “I Will Follow Him” and Paul & Paula’s “Hey Paula” helped him learn English. Listening to music had also become an important ritual in his work, providing him with inspiration in his art. When he sketches “fashionable girls”, he puts on Paul McCartney’s tracks, and switches to Indonesian gamelan when he needs to draw intricate details. He enjoys pop music, particularly rock music of the 1950s and 60s, listening to The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Elvis Presley. Lat is also partial to country music, and to singers such as Hank Williams and Roy Rogers because he finds their tunes “humble”. His enjoyment of music is more than a passive interest; he is proficient with the guitar and piano, and can play them by ear.

The early influences on his art style were from the West. Like most of the Malaysian children in the 1950s, Lat watched Hanna-Barbera cartoons (The Flintstones and The Jetsons) on television and read imported British comics, such as The Dandy and The Beano. He studied them and used their styles and themes in his early doodles. After the foreign influences in his works were noticed by a family friend, Lat was advised by his father to observe and draw upon ideas from their surroundings instead. Heeding the advice, the young cartoonist intimated himself with local happenings. Tiga Sekawan was conceived as a humorous crime-fighting story of a local flavour. Keluarga Si Mamat and its protagonist were named after his youngest brother Mamat, its stories based on Lat’s observations of his fellow villagers and schoolmates. The inspiration for his cartoons about Bersunat came about when he was on assignment at a hospital. As he was taking breaks from investigating the dead victims of crime brought to the morgue, Lat chanced upon the circumcisions performed by the hospital on ethnic Malay boys. He found their experiences clinical, devoid of the elaborate and personal ceremonies that celebrated his own rite to manhood in the village. Lat felt compelled to illustrate the differences between life in his kampung and the city.

Lat Net Worth

Lat is one of the richest Cartoonist from Malaysia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lat 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Malaysian society used to look down on cartoonists, assuming that those who practised the trade were intellectually inferior to writers, or were lesser artists; Lat was not the only cartoonist to be paid with movie tickets in the 1950s; Rejabhad once received one ticket for ten cartoons, and many others were likewise recompensed, or were paid very little money. Despite the lowly reputation of his profession at that time, Lat is very proud of his choice of career; he once took umbrage with an acquaintance’s girlfriend for her presumption that the words and ideas in his cartoons were not his own. Drawing cartoons is more than a career to him:

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Lat Dating?

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At the age of nine, Lat began to supplement his family’s income through his artistic skills, by drawing comics and selling them to his friends. Four years later, in 1964, the young cartoonist achieved his first published work: a local movie magazine—Majallah Filem—printed his comic strips, paying him with movie tickets. Lat’s first comic book publication, Tiga Sekawan (Three Friends Catch a Thief), was published by Sinaran Brothers that year. The company had accepted Lat’s submission, mistaking him for an adult and paying him 25 Malaysian ringgits (RM) for a story about three friends who band together to catch thieves. In 1968, at the age of 17, Lat started penning Keluarga Si Mamat (Mamat’ s Family), a comic strip for Berita Minggu (the Sunday edition of Berita Harian). The series ran in the paper every week for 26 years. Although still a schoolboy, Lat was earning a monthly income of RM100, a large sum in those days, from his cartoons. His education finished two years later at the end of Form 5; his Third Grade in the Senior Cambridge examinations was not enough for him to advance to Form 6. Graduating with an education equivalent to that of high school, Lat started looking for a job and had his sights set on becoming an illustrator.

Facts & Trivia

Laura Ranked on the list of most popular Cartoonist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Malaysia. Lat celebrates birthday on March 5 of every year.

At the time that Lat started drawing for the New Straits Times, local political cartoonists were gentle in their treatment of Malaysian politicians; the politicians’ features were recreated faithfully and criticisms were voiced in the form of subtle poems. Lat, however, pushed the boundaries; although he portrayed the politicians with dignity, he exaggerated notable features of their appearances and traits. Lat recalled that in 1974, he was told to change one of his works, which portrayed Malaysian Prime Minister Abdul Razak from the back. Lee refused to print the work unchanged, and pointedly asked the cartoonist “You want to go to jail?!” In 1975, however, Lat’s next attempt at a political cartoon won Lee’s approval. The satire featured a caricature of Razak’s successor—Hussein Onn—on the back of a camel, travelling back to Kuala Lumpur from Saudi Arabia; its punchline was Hussein’s hailing of his mount to slow down after reading news that a pay raise for the civil service would be enacted on his return.

Is LAT scrabble word?

Yes, lat is a valid Scrabble word.

What does LAT mean in slang?

“ Living apart Together ” is the most common definition for LAT on Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

What does LAT mean in medical terms?

: latissimus dorsi —usually used in plural.

What does LAT mean in reading?

Linguistically Accommodated Testing (LAT) Mathematics. Reading/ELA.

Is lat a Scrabble word UK?

lat n. ( Britain slang, usually in the plural) A latrine: a rudimentary or military facility for urination and defecation.