2014年1月13日 星期一

Comics Artist from Taiwan: YEH Yu-tung

YEH Yu-tung
Yeh Yu-tung graduated from Tunghai University, Department of Fine Arts, currently working in producing fine art. From a young age, his goal was to draw comics. Through applying Chinese ink skills to comics, he hopes to bring out the mystique and imagery of Eastern elements. Adept in ink comics painting, his style is varied and visually engaging. The fresh style allows the reader to also have a sense of “appreciating art” while reading the comics.
Believing that comics is the seed of “creativity”; that is an image projected out from the mind, when paired with illustrations and text, allows the reader, to catch a glimpse of the author’s thoughts and ideas when reading. Allowing the reader to experience the author’s feelings is almost like an exchange; through the author’s sharing, the reader gains new thoughts and new experiences.



Awards and Exhibitions:
2010   Sentimental Sword was awarded Best Potential Comic Award of the first Golden Comic Award
2012   Kitten was awarded the Excellent Work of the National Publication Award

Important Works:
2010   Sentimental Sword
2011   Kitten
2012   Secret Sword
2013   Legend of Benevolence

Sentimental Sword

Kitten

Comics Artist from Taiwan: TK. CHANG Shih-hsin

TK. CHANG Shih-hsin
Japanese-inspired young-adult comics style with a feeling of speed is the significant feature of TK. Chang Shih-hsin’s comics. The story and scenes in his works are full of energy. While in vocational school, TK. Chang Shih-hsin was awarded the 11th Champion of New Manga King held by Tong Li Publishing Co., Ltd.. In 2007, TK. Chang Shih-hsin made his first formal publication with Skanda, and in 2013 seized first prize in the Golden Comic Award, Best Young Comic Award with Black Dreams. One can see TK. Chang Shih-hsin’s ambition from within the comics, with an intense personal style and complete story construction. The storyboards and backgrounds of the stories are quite exquisite, and he succeeds in establishing characters, with their own individual characteristics. At the same time the designs don't fall into the Japanese archetype of manga art. TK. Chang Shih-hsin uses few screen-tones, instead using pure and simple black and white brushstrokes. With a meticulous style, TK. Chang Shih-hsin presents adventurous stories that are brilliant and provoking.



Awards and Exhibitions:
2013   Black Dream won first prize in the Golden Comic Award, Best Young Comic Award.

Important Works:
2007   Skanda
2013   Black Dreams
Skanda

Black Dreams

Comics Artist from Taiwan: Sean CHUANG

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 1995 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 were published, recording the life and culture of Taiwan in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the joys and the sorrows of advertisers.



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.

Important Works:
2011   The Window
2013  ‘80s Diary in Taiwan
2013  Film Maker’s Notes (2014 Edition)
‘80s Diary in Taiwan

Film Maker’s Note (2014 Edition)

Comics Artist from Taiwan: Kinono

Kinono
Kinono graduated from the Department of Communications Design, Shih Chien University. Kinono’s art style is meticulous and soft, and cute British boys and girls are often seen in Kinno’s work. Skilled in bringing out the atmosphere of children’s fairy tales through his meticulous comics work, the story’s development always causes the reader to be surprised, and they cannot help but smile in their hearts. Even if the subject of work is a witch, the comic is still full of warmth. Every year Kinono creates one to two works, and continues to join in on activities with fellow artists. In 2008, Kinono won the secondary prize at the Kodansha Morning International Comic Competition. Soon after, in a supplemental issue of Morning (Kodansha) and Creative Comic Collection (published by Gaea), Kinono published a series of short works.



Awards and Exhibitions:
2008   Joe’s Teeth won the secondary prize at the second Kodansha Morning International Comic Competition

Important Works:
2011   The Gold River in Creative Comic Collection Issue 7
2012   Sharay and Anita in Creative Comic Collection Issue 10, Comet Picker
2013   Formosa Prince in Edo in Creative Comic Collection Issue 14, Emily's Privacy Party -part1-


Comet Picker

Emily's Privacy Party

Comics Artist from Taiwan: Jason CHIEN

Jason CHIEN
Jason Chien is now an independent artist. Believing comics is just like a movie that can be made by a single piece of paper and a single pencil; and that each comic book is a ticket that can take you to different worlds, so he completely threw himself into the comics industry. In August 2005, he officially went public with Little Red Riding Hood Falls in Love With the Big Bad Wolf in the Challenger monthly publication. In June 2006, in the No. 26 of Challenger, he began publishing the serial A Falling Star Hebrew. At the end of May, 2007, the first collection of A Falling Star Hebrew was compiled and published. He served as the main artist for railway, economics, World War II manga, as well as illustrator for comics and advertisement storyboards, as well as working on illustrating novels.



Awards and Exhibitions:
2013   Time Travel: A Journey to Collect Train Tickets was awarded first prize in the 4th Golden Comic Award for the Best General Comic Award.

Important Works:
2011   God of the Stock Market: Korekawa Ginzo
2012   Time Travel: A Journey to Collect Train Tickets

Time Travel: A Journey to Collect Train Tickets


Take A Walk

Comics Artist from Taiwan: Cory



Cory
As an expert in fresh and clean transparent painting techniques, Cory presents moving stories that conquers the hearts of countless readers. She believes that a comics artist must thoroughly experience life for the story to formulate. The creation process is like planning an independent journey. Each story is a journey, so when conceptualizing the story, it is like not being prepared before leaving, lacking inspiration, that is, being unable to find the best way to express something. Similar to being lost in the middle of a journey, running into layer upon layer of difficulties.



Awards and Exhibitions:
2011   Lovely, Lovely, Lovely was awarded Best Young Woman Comic Award of the 2nd  Golden Comic Award
2012   Make a wish! Da-xi Vol. 1 was awarded the Best Comic Grand Prize and Best Young Woman Comic Award of the 3rd Taiwan Golden Comic Award, and the Excellence Award of the 5th Japanese International Manga Award.
2013   Make A Wish! Da-xi Vol. 2 was awarded the Best Comic Grand Prize and Best Young Woman Comic Award of the 4th Taiwan Golden Comic Award.

Important Works:
2009    Lovely, Lovely, Lovely! 1
2010    Lovely, Lovely, Lovely! 2 and 3
2011    Make A wish! Da-xi 1
2012    Make A wish! Da-xi 2
2013    Make A wish! Da-xi 3


Lovely, Lovely, Lovely! Vol. 1

 Make A Wish! Da-xi


Comics Artist from Taiwan: 61Chi

61Chi
61Chi graduated in 2011 from the Design Group, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University. In 2007, she published her first Dōjinshi illustration collection and has published over 10 Dōjinshi on her own. At the same time, she continued to receive many cases from publishing houses and private writers to draw novel covers and illustrations.

61Chi is part of a new generation of cutting edge comics artists in Taiwan. With astonishing skills, her style spans children’s illustrations, realism, and Japanese-style aesthetics. At the same time, she is doing design, drawing comics, playing with photography, and currently presenting works among fellow artists. Aside from print media, 61Chi also does a lot of 3D design work, such as ticket holders and iCash cards.

61Chi attempts to take the beauty of art and design and bring it into the world of comics and illustrations. Her dream is to travel around the world, hoping someday to see for herself aurora borealis and the Loch Ness monster.



Awards and Exhibitions:
2012   Representative comics artists at the Taiwan Pavilion of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Emit was a finalist in the Golden Butterfly Award and the Golden Tripod Award
2013   Invited to join the Independent Comics Artist Exhibition at the Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong.
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.

Important Works:
2011 Emit
2012 THE MOOD
2014 Room


THE MOOD
Room