Wiwien Wintarto
I was born on May 4, 1971, on a small village called Gedongan in Magelang County, the province of Central Java, Indonesia. Following the footsteps of my father who is a comicbook artist and cartoonist, I want to be a comicbook artist and a cartoonist too. Then, something happened that change my life completely.
In 1985, I became a member of Perpustakaan Keliling or Mobile Library, a service provided by the Local Government Public Library Office of Semarang to urge young people to read. The Mobile Library comes in a small truck fully loaded by books, especially teenage romance novels, children storybook, and detective novels. It arrives in my neighborhood once a week every Wednesday at 3 PM.
Through the Mobile Library I read books by Agatha Ch
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