Created by Sawas Jutharop (1911-1950) and published in 1932 and 1933 in the Siam Rath newspaper, Sang Thong is the first serialized long-form comics in Thailand. In his Sang Thong comics, Sawas Jutharop recreates - with great liberty - his own version of the tale of prince Sang Thong who gained a golden skin complexion in an enchanted pond. Sang Thong is from the ChakChak WongWong repertoire, whose satires are “about adventurous and polygynous life of princely heroes” involving forced exiles, separations, transformations, magical items, conflicts with in-laws and happy endings*
*comicsgrid.com/article/id/3569 called Introduction: Prayoon Chanyawongse, the King of Thai Cartoon
Sawas Jutharop’s third installment of San Thong published in the pages of The SriKrung Daily News on 22 October 1932. The King sends courtiers to dependent cities in order to summon all unmarried princes under 30 to reach his kingdom within 15 nights.*
*The Early Days of Siamese and Thai Comics Art: Local and Transnational Development of the Art Form from 1906 to 1958 by Nicolas Verstappen, Communication Management, International Program, Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University