Description: "This is the first overview of cartoon art in this important cultural nexus of Asia. The eight chapters provide historical and present-day overviews of cartoons and comics in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and sociocultural and political analyses of cartooning in Singapore, Myanmar, and Malaysia"--
Brief description: John A. Lent was a professor for 51 years in universities in the United States, the Philippines, Malaysia, Canada, and China. He founded and has edited or presided over a number of periodicals and organizations. He lives in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
Review Quotes: "The essays provide textual analysis and unique research into one of the least-documented regions of comic creation...remarkable...an indispensable resource.... Essential"-Choice; "the latest work fro a prodigious producer of books on developing nation communications and comics...in this case both...vivid"-Communication Booknotes Quarterly.