{{short description|Chinese New Zealander comic book artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox comics creator |image = Ant Sang ComicFest 2019.jpg |caption = Sang at Wellington ComicFest 2019 |birth_name = |birth_date = 1970 |birth_place = New Zealand |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = New Zealander |area = Cartoonist, Graphic Novelist |cartoonist = true |writer = true |artist = true |penciller = true |inker = true |editor = |publisher = |letterer = |colorist = |alias = |notable works = ''bro'Town'',''The Dharma Punks'' |website = {{url|antsang.co.nz}} |nonUS = true }} '''Ant Sang''' (Chinese name: 方樹豪) is a fifth generation Chinese New Zealander comic book artist and designer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/4594695/Burning-ambition|title=Burning ambition|website=Stuff |date=29 January 2011|language=en|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref> He is perhaps best known for his work on the animated show ''Bro'Town''.
==Career== 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.antsang.co.nz/comics.htm |title=Comics |access-date=2012-04-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127185950/http://www.antsang.co.nz/comics.htm |archive-date=2012-01-27 }}</ref> The central characters from ''Filth'' formed the basis of his next series, ''The Dharma Punks''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2458748|title=Ant Sang : shaolin and bro'Town|date=2011-02-05|work=Saturday Morning|access-date=2019-05-04|publisher=Radio New Zealand }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11249320|title=Dharma Punks: Kiwi comic classic kickstarted back into life|newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |date=2014-05-04|access-date=2019-05-04|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/video-pointer/6488829/Childrens-book-awards-finalists-announced|title=Children's book awards finalists announced|date=2014-07-08|website=Stuff |language=en|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/97726318/about-a-third-of-high-school-teens-are-selfharming-longterm-study-finds|title=About a third of high school teens are self-harming, long-term study finds|last=Thomas|first=Rachel|date=2017-10-10|website=Stuff |language=en|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref><ref name="nzonscreen.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/ant-sang?tab=biography|title = Ant Sang | NZ on Screen}}</ref>
Sang designed the characters and backgrounds for the award-winning animated show ''Bro'Town''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2458748/ant-sang-shaolin-and-bro%27town|title=Ant Sang : shaolin and bro'Town|date=2011-02-05|website=Radio New Zealand |language=en-nz|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref> He has also undertaken commercial work for organisations including SkyCity Cinemas.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/ant-sang/2a/a62/b67 |title=Ant Sang - New Zealand | LinkedIn |website=nz.linkedin.com |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716021457/http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/ant-sang/2a/a62/b67 |archive-date=16 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Selected works== === Graphic novels === * ''Shaolin Burning'' * ''The Dharma Punks'' * ''Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas'' (with Michael Bennett)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesapling.co.nz/single-post/2018/07/20/Ant-Sang-Helen-and-the-Go-Go-Ninjas|title=Ant Sang, Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas|last=Kinnaird|first=Adrian|date=2018-07-21|website=The Sapling {{!}} Home {{!}} Conversations about children's books|language=en|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref>
=== Television === * ''bro'Town''
==Awards== Sang has received the following awards and honors: *Achievement in Production Design in General Television - Qantas Film and Television Awards 2008<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018653172/bookmarks-with-graphic-novelist-ant-sang|title=Bookmarks with graphic novelist, Ant Sang|date=2018-07-11|website=Radio New Zealand |language=en-nz|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref> *Achievement in Production Design - Air New Zealand Screen Awards 2006<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2006/ant-sang/|title=Ant Sang - The Listener|last=Nippert|first=Matt|date=2006-09-23|website=Noted|language=en|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref>
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