Last Update November 25th, 2016
Have you seen the badly bashed up Najib Tun Razak cartoon?
The so-called hollow victory of the Malaysian 13th General Election by Barisan Nasional is aptly caricatured by Singapore cartoonist Heng Kim Song (below).
It was published on The New York Times (Global Edition) on May 11th 2013.
It shows a badly bashed up Najib Tun Razak as the winner of a boxing match between him and Anwar Ibrahim. The referee is the election committee.
For those of you who just only know cartoons by LAT or Zunar from Malaysia, then here is a short intro about this Singapore award-winning cartoonist.
Singapore Cartoonist Heng Kim Song
His full name is Heng Kim Song. This Singapore artist is popularly known as Heng.
This self-taught editorial cartoonist is an internationally renowned cartoonist whose cartoons have been syndicated internationally since 1991.
His editorial cartoons have appeared in major publications such as The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Asahi Shimbun, Time and Asiaweek.
He has won top awards in cartoon competitions organized by the United Nations, the Italian Museum of Political Satire and Caricature and the Society of Publishers in Asia. [source]
You can see his social and political cartoons over here and at Google Images.
Another one of my favorite Singapore editorial cartoonist is Miel.
Actually Miel or full name, Miel Prudencio Ma is from Philippine.
Before he and family emigrated to Singapore in 1992, he was the chief editorial cartoonist of The Philippine Star.
His cartoons are syndicated by The New York Times/Cartoonists’ and Writers Syndicate and by Cagle Cartoons.
You can also find his cartoons in The International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Asiaweek, World & I, Japan Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The South China Morning Post and World Press Review, and other publications.
Miel won the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Illustration Award of 2013
You should check out his graphic novel called “Scenegapore”.
Miel’s take on the funny side of Singapore’s history;from the time Sang Nila Utama spotted the Merlion, through the interesting streets of newly-founded Singapore by Sir Stamford Raffles, up to the present day.