Born into a tea farming family at Meishan of Chiayi in 1988, Kiya Chang has a cat in suit. Making closets is her hobby. Currently Chang is in the field of comics and illustration.
Chang was awarded “Ching Win New Artist Award” and “Tong Li Short Comics Award” in 2006. In 2007, she submitted her work to “Challenger Monthly” and made debut in the magazine with the “Take Me to Sports Field” series. The artist specializes in depicting Taiwan’s people-to-people humanistic, cultural and natural landscapes in the mid-19th century with a detailed, sophisticated and vivid style, with most of the works so far centering around the theme of tea. Chang especially loves depicting how John Dodd, a British tea businessman dubbed as “Father of Oolong Tea in Taiwan” along with a Chinese merchant Li Chun-sheng promoted Oolong Tea to the world, including the way how tea is produced, manufactured and tasted in the works, which is a rarely-seen practice among peer artists. This series of works was compiled into Formosa Oolong Tea and published after it had been first carried on Creative Comics Collection in 2010. The artist also published Tea Farmer’s Anecdotes for sale at comics exhibitions.
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Awards:
．2014 Formosa Oolong Tea: Golden Comic Awards “Best New Comic Artist Award”
Selected Works:
．2013: 異人茶跡 Formosa Oolong Tea / Gaea Books
．2012: 茶商與買辦Tea Businessman and Merchantt and Businessman / Self-published
．2010-2011: 茶家趣聞繪1-3Tea Farmer’s AnecdotesVol. 1-3 / Self-published
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| Cover of "Formosa Oolong Tea" by Kiya CHANG |
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| Interior page of "Formosa Oolong Tea" by Kiya CHANG |
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| Interior page of "Formosa Oolong Tea" by Kiya CHANG |
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