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      Prayoon Chanyawongse’s Cartoon Likay: Amalgamating Likay Theatrical Form and Comics into a Unique Thai Genre

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          By launching in 1938 a series of adaptations of folktales in comics form, Thai cartoonist Prayoon Chanyawongse established the Cartoon Likay genre which places the reader as a member of an audience attending a Likay performance. The local theatrical form frames his graphic narratives where scenes of a play performed on a stage continuously alternate with sequences taking place in the vast realms of epics set in the Ayutthaya period. By introducing key Likay conventions such as recurring humorous interruptions and asides, Chanyawongse could effectively address contemporary social issues and political topics within traditional folktales. This paper explores several Cartoon Likay narratives in the context of the Likay theatrical form and the local folktale repertoire to discuss the nature and development of Chanyawongse’s signature comics genre.

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                Journal
                2048-0792
                The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
                Open Library of Humanities
                2048-0792
                01 June 2018
                2018
                : 8
                : 1
                : 9
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, TH
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7265-1502
                Article
                10.16995/cg.121
                29189ba3-1308-4ba5-8d88-b5602d5db92b
                Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                Literary studies
                Likay,Cartoon Likay,comics,theatre,Thailand,folktale
                Literary studies
                Likay, Cartoon Likay, comics, theatre, Thailand, folktale

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