Yesterday and Today
John Lent, a scholar of comics, described "Kampung Boy: Yesterday and Today" as Lat's "crowning achievement". Published in 1993, "Yesterday and Today" returns to Lat's roots as a "kampung" child as described in "The Kampung Boy". It explores in greater detail the games played by Lat and his friends and the lifestyle they had in the 1960s. However, "Yesterday and Today" also compares these past events to similar occurrences in the 1980s and '90s, contrasting the two in a humorous light; the opposition of the two time frames is further enhanced by rendering the portrayals of contemporary scenes in watercolour while those of the past remain in black and white. Lat's goal for this book was to "tell his own children how much better it was in the old days."