JOSHUA CHIANG

BIOGRAPHY

Joshua Chiang is a Singapore-born artist now based in Phnom Penh. Ever since he successfully sold the only copy of his first original hand-drawn comic-book The Adventures of Hercules and Odysseus to his mother for a meal at the age of nine, Joshua has been filled with an unquenchable belief that he will achieve greatness in the realm of visual storytelling.

Despite being diagnosed around the same period with a condition known as ‘Delusions of Grandeur’ (on top of an already devastating disability known as red-green deficiency), Joshua persevered in his craft, and in 2003, co-wrote and co-directed the digital feature film S11, which has been screened at various international film festivals such as the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival. Since then Joshua became heavily involved in the Singapore animation scene. He has written for many locally produced animated series such as The New Adventures of Nanoboy, Master Raindrop, Zigby and The Exolight as well as international productions such as Robot ARPO, and also helped conceptualise and storyboard various other series.

In 2013, Joshua relocated to Cambodia. And there, a strange thing happened; Joshua begun illustrating a lot, especially children’s books and comics which soon became his full-time job. In that way, he found out that he had come full circle back to the thing he loves most as a kid – drawing. And not just any form of drawing, but drawing to tell a story. Later in 2017, Joshua started Candid Cambodia, a series of illustrations inspired by what he sees around Cambodia. The art-prints based on the illustrations are now a hit with tourists, both expats and Cambodians alike.

Two years later, the first book of Joshua's debut comic book mini-series Ronin Rat And Ninja Cat was released. The project - amounting to five books in total - is expected to finish by the end of 2020/early 2021.

List of Contributed Works:

• Ronin Rat & Ninja Cat #1-5