| Birth Date: | 1970 |
| Birth Place: | New Zealand |
| Nationality: | New Zealander |
| Area: | Cartoonist, Graphic Novelist |
| Cartoonist: | true |
| Artist: | true |
| Penciller: | true |
| Inker: | true |
| Notable Works: | bro'Town,The Dharma Punks |
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Ant Sang is a fifth generation Chinese New Zealander comic book artist and designer.[1] He is perhaps best known for his work on the animated show Bro'Town.
While studying graphic design at the then Auckland Institute of Technology in the mid-1990s, Sang first began to publish his work in the short-lived New Zealand comic Mainstream, and Auckland event guide The Fix. He also published his own mini-comic book, Filth, which ran to seven issues between 1994 and 1997.[2] The central characters from Filth formed the basis of his next series, The Dharma Punks.[3] This comprised an eight-issue story line, first published in the early 2000s and later compiled into a trade paperback with printing crowd-funded via Kickstarter in 2014.[4]
Sang's graphic novel Shaolin Burning was nominated in 2012 for Best Picture Book in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. This was the first time that a young adult graphic novel had been nominated in that category.[5] He has also illustrated graphic novels for Victoria University's Youth Wellbeing Study and been published in magazines including Rip It Up and the New Zealand Listener.[6] [7]
Sang designed the characters and backgrounds for the award-winning animated show Bro'Town.[8] He has also undertaken commercial work for organisations including SkyCity Cinemas.[9]
Sang has received the following awards and honors: