Wednesday, 7 April 2021

The Charm of Jakawana

Sorry guys, this one began life as a blank ashcan post. 

Nonetheless, this article of mine is going to be an amateur review on a surreal jungle comic from Cold War era Indonesia, and what will become an exportable adaptation of it. 

The current title of this Indonesian comic, from 1979 onwards, is Jakawana: Anak Didikan Rimba, which is perhaps a pun of an old Indonesian name for the Jungle Books. That said, it surely was a national bestseller for its time. 

It has about three surviving editions; with each one being two Scholastic Bone-sized volumes long. 


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