 Front cover of the eleventh reprint (1997) | |
| Author | Lat |
|---|---|
| Language | English, with a little bit of Malay, Cantonese and Tamil |
| Genre | Autobiographical comic |
| Publisher | Berita Publishing |
Publication date | August 1981 |
| Publication place | Malaysia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 190 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 967-969-402-X |
| OCLC | 849821079 |
| 741.59595 | |
| Preceded by | The Kampung Boy |
| Followed by | Kampung 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).