Cartoons
Cartoon from Majlis (1948). The caption in Jawi script reads ‘Administration, Defence, Economy. The current needs of the Malays’.
Cartoons—drawings exaggerating or distorting a subject for satirical or comic effect—started locally in the 1930s in newspapers, and spread in the 1970s to cartoon magazines and animated films. The style of cartoons evolved from the blunt and direct critical humour of pre-Independence cartoons aimed at creating political awareness on issues such as colonialism and immigration, to the more subtle and regulated post-Independence cartoons which commented on society and local and international issues.
- Information in the full article includes
- Pre-Independence (1930–1957)
- Post-Independence and contemporary