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)