[3] He stopped attending formal school at the age of 19 in order to work for the art department of the Manila Chronicle.
During 1972, Malang attended art classes at the Otis Art Institute[1] in Los Angeles, California, under a three-month scholarship[3] At the Manila Chronicles, Malang created Kosme, the Cop, Retired (1947-1965), the country's first English-language daily comic strip,[2] for the evening edition of the newspaper.
Malang established the gallery together with cartoonist colleagues such as Liborio Gatbonton, Larry Alcala, Hugo Yonzon, and Elmer Abustan.
[2] In 1966, Malang launched Art for the Masses, a project that brought printmaking to a larger number of artwork enthusiasts at affordable prices.
[1] In 1957, Philippine Art Gallery founder, Lyd Arguilla, included Malang in the Twelve Artists in the Philippines-Who's Who.