Finding the funny

The Star's C.W. Kee, hard at work.

Star2's resident cartoonist CW Kee recollects how meeting Lat, sitting next to chatty typists and failing his art exam all played into his comic world.

You wouldn't know it but cartoonist CW Kee, the man behind Malaysia's longest-running daily newspaper comic strip, actually failed his Art exam in high school. But with the belief that you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it – or “pushed into a corner”, as Kee puts it – he learned to draw until a callus formed on his middle finger from holding his pen.