The Most Brutally Honest Profile Of A Working Cartoonist Ever?

Probably not, but it's been a long while since I've seen a profile of a cartoonist as casually thorough in exploring the ups and downs of being a name cartoonist in Asia (or anywhere else) as this one in the Malay Mail of Ibrahim Anon, who came to fame in the late 1980s as a cartoonist under the pseudonym Ujang. Apparently the cartoonist wasn't able to build on his initial fame through a publication of his own -- it was beset with legal problems -- and experienced some hard times afterward. He's now making a comeback through animation opportunities based on some of his more successful work. What struck me is that there are tough stories like this in North American comics, but the article reads more like the version discussed in somber tones by industry people around breakfast at a convention rather than published in a newspaper -- up to, and including, the moment he seems to have bottomed out.

I think one reason the article turned out the way it did is that his early success was a big part of his story: note this post.
 
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