Town Boy

Town Boy
Front cover of the eleventh reprint (1997)
AuthorLat
LanguageEnglish, with a little bit of Malay, Cantonese and Tamil
GenreAutobiographical comic
PublisherBerita Publishing
Publication date
August 1981
Publication placeMalaysia
Media typePrint
Pages190 pp (first edition)
ISBN967-969-402-X
OCLC849821079
741.59595
Preceded byThe Kampung Boy 
Followed byKampung Boy: Yesterday and Today 

Town Boy is a graphic novel by Lat that revolves on Lat's teenage years in Ipoh during the 1960s, including his school days, his friendship with Frankie, a Chinese boy who lives in a shop house, as well as the search for his love as the book's main themes which ends with Lat's last meeting with Frankie at the Ipoh railway before the latter fled to United Kingdom to pursue his A-Level.

Published in August 1981 by Berita Publishing, it is a sequel to The Kampung Boy (1979) and was a commercial and critical success. Narrated in English with a smattering of Malay, Cantonese and Tamil, the book has been translated into other languages, such as Japanese and French, and sold abroad. This book along with its prequel, The Kampung Boy, has been reprinted many times in the country and abroad, it was then followed by its spin-off, Kampung Boy: Yesterday and Today (1993).