Comic Artist from TAIWAN: Sean CHUANG 小莊

self portrait by Sean CHUANG

Sean Chuang has 20 years of experience as an advertising director, directing more than 400 works. He was awarded the Times Awards and the Times Asia-Pacific Award multiple times. As a well-known Taiwanese advertisement director, his works span China, Singapore and Japan. In 1997 he published Film Maker’s Notes recording work and life which was a hot seller with 18 reprints, becoming a classic and required reading in the industry and related school departments. In 2010, he finished his second work The Window, Taiwan’s first graphic novel, earning the Government Information Office’s Best Graphic Novel Award, and in 2011 a Spanish translation was published.

Still active in advertising circles, Director Sean Chuang continues to shoot videos and draw comics. In 2013 Film Maker’s Notes (2014 Edition) and ‘80s Diary in Taiwan vol.1 were published, recording the life and culture of Taiwan in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the joys and the sorrows of advertisers. ‘80s Diary in Taiwan vol. 2 is scheduled to be published in 2015.

Awards and Exhibitions:

．2009 The Window was awarded the Government Information Office’s Best Graphic Novel Award

．2012 representative artists at the Taiwan Pavilion of the Angoulême International Comics Festival

．2013 Invited to join the Independent Comics Artist Exhibition at the Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong.

．2013 One of the participants from the Taiwan Group at the Belgium Brussels Comics Festival

．2013 invited to join the A Parallel Tale: Taipei in 80s x Hong Kong in 90s exhibition held by the Cultural Affairs Department of the New Taipei City Government, Dala Publishing, and the Hong Kong Arts Centre.

．2014 representative artists at the Taiwan Pavilion of the Angoulême International Comics Festival

．2014 ‘80s Diary in Taiwan vol. 1: Golden Comic Awards “Best Young Male Comic Award” and “Comic of the Year Award”

Selected Works:

．1997 廣告人手記 Film Maker's Notes / Dala Publishing Co

．2011 窗The Window / Dala Publishing Co.

．2013 80年代事件簿1 ‘80s Diary in Taiwan vol. 1 / Dala Publishing Co.

．2015 80年代事件簿 2 ‘80s Diary in Taiwan vol. 2 / Dala Publishing Co. (coming soon)

80s Diary in Taiwan vol. 2 by Sean Chuang

80s Diary in Taiwan vol. 2 by Sean Chuang