“A work of art is a declaration of freedom. There has never been anything so difficult for mankind to bear as freedom.”

- Oskar Schlemmer, The Letters and Diaries of Oskar Schlemmer

COMMENT | The banning of Cheeming Boey's ‘When I Was A Kid 3’ comic book is the kind of news that slips under the radar but is precisely the kind of state intrusion into our public spaces that rational Malaysians should be defending.

To be honest I was hoping that there would be more local creative types defending Boey instead of the sampling of virtue signalling that has been highlighted by the press.

To be clear, I have never heard of this author but every time I read about a piece of art that has been banned by the state it gets my hackles up.

Keep in mind that I am not a...