Drawing on inspiration


Among the greats: Lat standing alongside Fatah at the Malaysian Cartoon and Comic House. Looking on is Malaysian Cartoonist’s Club president and House of Cartoon and Comic Malaysia founder Mohd Desa Omar.

KUALA LUMPUR: Cartoonist Fatah sat in his wheelchair surrounded by an excited crowd, his hands trembling from a nerve disorder, but he happily obliged autograph requests.

Thin and frail, the 66-year-old struggled to hold a pen and needed help to put pen to paper, and beamed after inscribing on the page.

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