Sooklek

Prayoon Chanyawongse, widely known as ‘the king of Thai cartoons’, was born 100 years ago, and the new commemorative book Sooklek (ศุขเล็ก) has been published to mark his centenary. It features reprints of classic comic strips, caricatures of several prime ministers, and some of the political cartoons that raised the hackles of the military government in the early 1970s. (Prayoon was warned several times to stop satirising the government. He responded by drawing the Sooklek character, his alter ego, with his mouth sewn shut.)