A small sari-sari store in Angono, Rizal caught the eye of Mauro Malang Santos, better known simply as Malang and the result is the tempera on cardboard 'Tindahan' (store) featured in this Mobilways 1957 front cover.
This blog covers only Cartoons and Illustration strips Malang made from 1947 to 1967, includes: “Labuyo,” a serial published in Sinagtala 1947; Established "Bituin Komiks", Bughouse Comics with Gat; Created “Kosme the Cop,” the adventures of a city policeman; “Kosme the Cop [Retired],” about the henpecked husband who gets into all sorts of scrapes; “Chain Gang Charlie,” the convict who has a thousand and one uses for his ball and chain; and “Beelzebub,” the devil whose tail an indispensable accessory. There are also samples of “Malang’s menagerie,“ a one-page wordless “villagescape” series that appeared in the Weekly Graphic. In all these works, Malang demonstrated his innate sense of humor and a remarkable knack for the sight gag.
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