Amy Chu (born 1968) is an American comic book author who runs the comic imprint Alpha Girl Comics as well as writing comics for other publishers.[1] She wrote the six-issue miniseries Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death and a few Wonder Woman issues for DC.[2]
In 2023, she won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.[3]
Early life
Chu was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1968,[4] and moved frequently in her youth, spending her formative years in Iowa.[5]
In 1989, she received dual degrees at
Wellesley College
and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
for East Asian Studies and Architectural Design, respectively.
Chu worked in Hong Kong from 1995 to 1997, running the Macau tourism office.[5]
In 2010, Chu started Alpha Girl Comics when she and her friend, Georgia Lee, discussed the lack of female voices in comics.[11][7] Chu took a course in creative writing and developed her interest in comics writing from there.[9][12] She has continued to focus on the lack of representation of women in the comics industry speaking on panels at comic events.[13]
She published three collections of short stories under Alpha Girl Comics titled Girls Night Out from 2012 to 2014.[14] Several were funded through Kickstarter, as well as in 2017, a remaster and collection of all three volumes into paperback format.[15]
Chu has been writing Red Sonja for Dynamite Entertainment since late 2016.[16] She also started working on Dynamite's KISS in 2016.[17] Chu took over writing duties for Dynamite's Green Hornet beginning with the 2018 run.[18]
Chu was recognized as a cultural leader of the year for 2018 by the Corea Image Communications Institute and said she had plans to write a comic in Seoul.
Chu wrote a comic adaptation of Carmilla drawn by Soo Lee titled Carmilla: The First Vampire set in 1990s New York City.[19] Her work went on to win the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.[20]
Personal life
In 2001, Chu married Laurence Chang, an investment analyst who is also a graduate of Harvard; they both kept their surnames.[21] They have two children and as of 2018 reside in Princeton, New Jersey.[22][5]
Bibliography
Writer
Alpha Girl Comics
Girls Night Out (2010–2017)
Girls Night Out (tpb, 104 pages, 2017) collects:
"And Other Stories" (with Cabbral, Louie Chin, Silvio dB, Craig Yeung and Chris Sotomayor, in #1, 2010)
"Tales of New York" (with Brian Shearer, Cabbral, Craig Yeung, Gannon Beck, Louie Chin, Rachelle Rosenberg, Sean Chen, Silvio dB and Tom Chu, in #2, 2011)
"The Way Love Goes" (with Larry Hama, Craig Yeung, Sean Von Gorman, Louie Chin, Anderson Cabral and Silvio dB, in #3, 2014)
The VIP Room (one shot, with Silvio dB, 20 pages, 2013)
Dark Horse Comics
The Secret Loves of Geeks (2018)
The Secret Loves of Geeks (tpb, 200 pages, February 2018, ISBN 1-5067-0473-5) collects:
"First Loves" (with Valentine De Landro, February 2018)
Carmilla: The First Vampire (2023)
Darryl Makes Comics
DMC (2014–2015)
DMC GN #2 (tpb, 100 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-9904636-1-3) collects:
"LAK6 Remixed!" (with Alison M Smith, in #1.5, October 2015)
