{"id":10938,"date":"2013-09-30T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2013-10-06T12:49:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T12:49:10","slug":"when-i-was-a-kid-childhood-stories-by-boey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2013\/09\/30\/when-i-was-a-kid-childhood-stories-by-boey\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Was a Kid – Childhood Stories by Boey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Cheeming Boey<\/b> (Last Gasp)
\nISBN: 978-0-86719-785-3<\/p>\n

The ability to go back into our childhoods and relive those bizarre, baffling and brilliantly fierce thoughts and every brand-new-day discoveries is a wondrous mixed blessing, but being able to share those recaptured experiences with jaded world-weary adults is a truly miraculous gift and thus utterly evergreen.<\/p>\n

A recent admission to the select but august crowd of halcyon salad-days wranglers is Malaysian animator, illustrator, educator, video game developer and cartoonist Cheeming Boey – who also produces gallery art on Styrofoam coffee cups and draws an autobiographical webcomic<\/a> about his life in America, entitled I Am Boey<\/b>.<\/p>\n

You should really check it out\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

As a kind of prequel to his blog – if indeed growing up can be considered an introduction to a main event – Boey has collected a huge number of visual memoirs and epigrams about his im-maturing years in Asia, bundling them up in a beguiling paperback that emphasises both the exoticism of life in Malaysia and the universal similarities and solidarities of being a kid.<\/p>\n

Warm, sensitive, intimate, uproarious, disarmingly honest as well as on occasion brutal, shocking and sad, these 103 visual monologues (with heart-warming family photos scattered throughout) are invitations into a world of wonder, rivalry, confusion, punishment, resentment, humiliation, anticipation, frustration, greed, glee and always the security of family.<\/p>\n

They all begin with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When I was a kid\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and prove that, apart from the odd surface detail, every happy, loving childhood is identical\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

The stand-out incidents include such salutary universal reminiscences as ‘My First Pet’<\/i>, ‘Baby Powder’<\/i>, ‘Bedtime Stories’<\/i>, ‘Bad for your Eyes’<\/i>, ‘Grandma’s Leg’<\/i>, ‘Nasal Noodles’<\/i>, ‘R-Rated’<\/i>, ‘Stealing Money’<\/i>, ‘Sunday Cartoons’<\/i>, ‘Not a Genius’<\/i> and of course ‘Failing Math’<\/i> but with such a wide catalogue to choose from, every little cartoon episode will resonate with somebody. Especially you\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a9 2011, 2013 Cheeming Boey. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n