Ant Sang

**Ant Sang** is a comic book artist and designer. He is perhaps best known for his work as designer 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. The central characters from *Filth* formed the basis of his next series, *The Dharma Punks*. 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.

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. 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*.

Sang designed the characters and backgrounds for the award-winning animated show *Bro'Town*. He has also undertaken commercial work for organisations including SkyCity Cinemas.

## Comics

### *The Dharma Punks* (Self-published, Earth's End, Conundrum Press & Presque Lune, 2001-2015)

* *The Dharma Punks #1* (Self-published, April 2001)
* *The Dharma Punks #2* (Self-published, 2001)
* *The Dharma Punks #3* (Self-published, 2nd of January 2001)
* *The Dharma Punks #4* (Self-published, 1st of November 2001)
* *The Dharma Punks #5* (Self-published, 2002)
* *The Dharma Punks #6 (*Self-published, 2002)
* *The Dharma Punks #7* (Self-published, November 2011)
* *The Dharma Punks #8* (Self-published, 2003)
* *The Dharma Punks* (Earth’s End, Conundrum Press & Presque Lune, 2014-2015)

### *Filth* (Tuatara Press, 1994-1997)

* *Filth #1* (Tuatara Press, April 1994)
* *Filth* #2 (Tuatara Press, August 1994)
* *Filth #3* (Tuatara Press, March 1995)
* *Filth #4* (Tuatara Press, July 1995)
* *Filth #5* (Tuatara Press, October 1995)
* *Filth #6* (Tuatara Press, April 1996)
* *Filth* *#7* (Tuatara Press, January 1997)

### Other comics

* *Mini Adventure Digest* (in collaboration with Paul Rogers)
* *Spaceboy* ([...], [...])
* *Shaolin Burning* (HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand, 2011)
* *Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas* (Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2nd of July 2018)

### Anthologies

* *Mainstream #1* ([...], [...])
* *Mainstream #2* ([...], [...])
* *UFO* ([...], [...])
* *Loose #1* ([...], [...])
* *Loose #3* ([...], [...])
* *The Fix* ([...], [...])
* "Ed and Red" (*Officer Pup Vol. 2*, July 2002)
* *June+Bug* (Faction Issue 1, December 2012)
* *Can We Leave the Window Open* (Lockdown: Tales from Aotearoa, November 2020)

## References

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20061004065351/http://www.comics.org.nz/wiki/index.php/The\_Dharma\_Punks
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20061004063414/http://www.comics.org.nz/wiki/index.php/Filth
3. ↑ 264 pages, ISBN: 9780143771241, https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/helen-and-the-go-go-ninjas-9780143771241
4. ↑ https://spiderfan.org/item/beyond/00029.html
5. ↑ https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20090415210014/http:/www.comics.org.nz/wiki/index.php?title=Officer\_Pup