Queenie Chan

Queenie Chan
Chan in 2025
Born	1980 (age 45–46) Hong Kong
Area	Penciller
Notable works	The Dreaming, Odd Is On Our Side, In Odd We Trust
queeniechan.com

Queenie Chan is a Chinese-Australian Original English-Language comic artist who co-wrote and illustrated the graphic novel In Odd We Trust, a prequel to Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas, and published by Del Rey. She illustrated the sequel, Odd Is On Our Side, and is currently illustrating The Boy's Book of Positive Quotations for Fairview Press,^[1] and continuing the series for her personal work The Dreaming.

Early life

Born in the 1980s in Hong Kong,^[2] Chan grew up immersed in Asian pop culture such as manga. She would often read Chinese-translated versions of Shonen Jump. Then, at the age of 6, she and her family migrated to Australia.^[3] Where she discovered American comic strips such as Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes.

As a teen, she regularly traveled back to Hong Kong keep up with the newest releases and by 17, she started to draw her own manga stories after reading Rurouni Kenshin.^[4] Her works are heavily inspired by the "manga-style".

Education

Chan attended Meriden High School before graduating and enrolling at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to study computer programming.

On March 25th, 2025, she graduated from Macquarie University and received her PhD on Comic Studies. Her thesis discusses effects of neoliberalism on global creative labour through the lens of South Korean “Webtoons”, dissects an existing case study of an activist digital comic, and produce a comic-game hybrid that attempts an intersectional approach to critiquing neoliberalism.^[5][6]

Career

Queenie Chan started publishing her own web comics before she considered submitting her work to Tokyopop in 2005, where she successfully published her three volume series The Dreaming.

Bill Sherman, reviewing Chan's work on The Dreaming praised her work stating she was a "skillful visual storyteller, capable of slathering on the atmosphere".^[7]

Awards and Accomplishments

• 2025, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Macquarie – Research on capitalism and digital comics (Webtoons)
• 2024, The Dreaming vol. 1-3 – Australian Library & Information Association (ALIA) 2024 Graphics Notables (YA)
• 2023, Women Who Were Kings #4: Catherine the Great – ALIA 2023 Graphics Notables (YA)
• 2021, Women Who Were Kings #3: Elizabeth I – Shortlisted for Ledger Awards (Now CAAA)
• 2017, Fabled Kingdom vol. 2 – Shortlisted for Ledger Awards

Selected bibliography

Published works

• The Dreaming (2005–2007)
• In Odd We Trust (2008)
• Odd Is On Our Side (2010)
• The Boy's Book of Positive Quotations (Illustrator) (2009)
• Small Shen (2012) (Art work by Queenie Chan, story by Kylie Chan)

One-shot manga

• A Chinese Ghost Story
• Twinside
• Block 6

Short stories

• Only Flora
• Keeper of the Soul
• Message To You
• The Two Dollar Deal
• Ten Years Ago Today
• Blood of Snow
• Yuen
• A Girl Called Marian
• Greenhouse
• A Short Ghost Story
• Twins
• Air+Space
• Shirley's Story
• Twinside
• Block 6
• A Chinese Ghost Story

References

1. Super Creatives: Queenie Chan Marianne De Pierres
2. "Manga artist Queenie Chan talks diversity and tips for aspiring artists". SBS PopAsia HQ. Archived from the original on 11 May 2019.
3. Chan, Queenie (7 October 2018). "The story of Queenie Chan, a manga artist crushing sexism and stereotypes". ABC News. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
4. Chan, Queenie (25 November 2007). "Interview: Queenie Chan". Comics Down Under (Interview). Interviewed by Patrick, Kevin. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
5. Chan, Queenie. "PhD 2024 – Capitalism: Parallel Lives – by Dr Queenie Chan". queeniechan.com. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
6. Chan, Queenie (30 April 2024). Gamifying the Digital Comic: Creative Labour and the Future of Digital Comics in a Neoliberal World (PDF). queeniechan.com (PhD thesis). Macquarie University. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
7. Sherman, Bill (19 September 2010). "Manga Review: The Dreaming Collection by Queenie Chan". Blogcritics. Archived from the original on 28 November 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2012.

External links

• Queenie Chan Website
• An interview with Queenie Chan conducted at Silverbulletcomicbooks.com
• "The story of Queenie Chan, a manga artist crushing sexism and stereotypes". ABC News. 8 October 2018. Archived from the original on 21 October 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2019.