Comic Artist from TAIWAN: Chang Sheng 常勝

self portrait by Chang Sheng

Born in Taipei, 1968. Studied Western Painting at Fu-hsin Trade & Arts Show, and worked as creative director at Dentsu, Young and Rubicam, and has won numerous awards, including China Times Advertising Award, 4A Creative Awards, Creativity Awards, and New York Festival Advertising Awards.

In 2004, he gave up his 15-year career in advertisement, and dedicated himself to creating comics. As a child, Chang was a fan of Yukinobu Hoshino, father of Japanese science fiction comics, and his work has been very much inspired by him. He draws in realistic styles, illustrating science fiction and fantastic themes. He creates to “bring to life the fantasies in his mind.” Comic to him is organic and full of unlimited possibilities, and comic artists should have persistent creative energy.

His work Stanle and X-Girl were serialized in Taiwan, and have been published in France and Italy. Chang Sheng is still actively producing new work, with OLDMAN serializing in Dongli’s bimonthly Dragon Youth.

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Awards:

．2004 STANLEY: GIO Graphic Novel Awards

．2011 BABY.: Golden Comic Awards “Best Teen Comic Award” and “Comic of the Year Award”

．2011 Short work, Dream Hotel: Taiwan National Institute for Compilation and Translation 2011 Outstanding Comics Awards Category B “Excellent Award”

．2012/2013 Representative artist at the Taiwan Pavilion of the Angoulême International Comics Festival

．2013 OLDMAN: "Excellence Award" at the Sixth Japan International Comics Awards

．2014 OLDMAN: Golden Comic Awards “Best Teen Comic Award”


Selected Works:

．2004 史坦利之石1-2 Stanley 1-2 / Tong Li Publishing Co.

．2005-2007 極限任務 X Girl / Tong Li Publishing Co.

．2008-2011 BABY. 1-4 / Tong Li Publishing Co.

．2011 隱藏關卡常勝短篇集 The Secret Level – Chang-sheng’s Short Stories

．2011 REAL常勝精選插畫集 REAL: Chang Sheng's Illustrated Collection 2004-2011 / Tong Li Publishing Co.

．2013-2014 奧德曼Oldman / Tong Li Publishing Co.

Cover of "Oldman" by Chang Sheng

interior page of "Oldman" by Chang Sheng

interior page of "Oldman" by Chang Sheng