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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

On the naughty Stephff

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‘Hard cover. 160 color pages of pure old-fashioned sexism, outrageous political incorrectness and borderline humor with a touch of ugly neocolonialist patronizing that will definitely make this book strictly forbidden in 20 years.”

The blurb says it all. End of review.

Okay, the go-go bar can wait a few minutes. Legendary cartoonist Stephff — and after 10 years at The Nation and many more elsewhere penning the most perceptive, poignant cartoons in Southeast Asia, “legend” is no myth — has released a tome on the frontlines of several different culture wars. The foreigner’s attempts to navigate the many flavours of Thainess for one, and the skirmishing around the line between funny…

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