{{Short description|Australian artist, writer}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2010}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox comics creator | image = Queenie Chan (AVCon 2025).jpg | caption = Chan in 2025 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1980}} | birth_place = Hong Kong | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | area = | cartoonist = | write = | art = | pencil = y | ink = | edit = | publish = | letter = | color = | alias = | signature = <!-- very optional --> | signature_alt = | notable works = ''The Dreaming'', <br>Odd Is On Our Side, <br> ''In Odd We Trust'' | influences = | awards = | website = {{URL|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,<ref>[http://www.mariannedepierres.com/super-creatives-queenie-chan/ Super Creatives: Queenie Chan] Marianne De Pierres</ref> and continuing the series for her personal work ''The Dreaming.''

==Early life== Born in the 1980s in Hong Kong,<ref>{{cite web |title=Manga artist Queenie Chan talks diversity and tips for aspiring artists |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/popasia/blog/2018/06/05/manga-artist-queenie-chan-talks-diversity-and-tips-aspiring-artists |website=SBS PopAsia HQ|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511223831/https://www.sbs.com.au/popasia/blog/2018/06/05/manga-artist-queenie-chan-talks-diversity-and-tips-aspiring-artists |archive-date=2019-05-11}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Queenie |date=7 October 2018 |title=The story of Queenie Chan, a manga artist crushing sexism and stereotypes |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-08/manga-artist-queenie-chan-shattering-stereotypes/10147166 |access-date=28 October 2025 |website=ABC News}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{cite interview |interviewer-last=Patrick |interviewer-first=Kevin |title=Interview: Queenie Chan |url=http://comicsdownunder.blogspot.com.au/2007/11/interview-queenie-chan.html |access-date=20 June 2017 |work=Comics Down Under |date=25 November 2007 |subject=Chan, Queenie}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Chan |first=Queenie |title=PhD 2024 – Capitalism: Parallel Lives – by Dr Queenie Chan |url=https://queeniechan.com/phd/?v=f77d8ed2dc48 |website=queeniechan.com |access-date=30 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Chan |first=Queenie |date=30 April 2024 |title=Gamifying the Digital Comic: Creative Labour and the Future of Digital Comics in a Neoliberal World |url=https://queeniechan.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GAMIFYING-THE-DIGITAL-COMIC-Creative-Labour-and-the-Future-of-Digital-Comics-in-a-Neoliberal-World-by-Queenie-Chan.pdf?v=f77d8ed2dc48 |degree=PhD |institution=Macquarie University |access-date=30 October 2025 |website=queeniechan.com}}</ref>

==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".<ref>{{cite web|last=Sherman|first=Bill|url=http://blogcritics.org/books/article/manga-review-the-dreaming-collection-by/#ixzz1kHDPIQUV|title=Manga Review: The Dreaming Collection by Queenie Chan|publisher=Blogcritics|date=19 September 2010|access-date=20 January 2012|archive-date=28 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128052734/http://blogcritics.org/books/article/manga-review-the-dreaming-collection-by/#ixzz1kHDPIQUV|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== 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

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==External links== * [http://www.queeniechan.com/ Queenie Chan Website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20081122090754/http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/pb/111599896251790.htm An interview with Queenie Chan conducted at Silverbulletcomicbooks.com] * {{cite web |title=The story of Queenie Chan, a manga artist crushing sexism and stereotypes |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-08/manga-artist-queenie-chan-shattering-stereotypes/10147166 |website=ABC News |access-date=11 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021144506/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-08/manga-artist-queenie-chan-shattering-stereotypes/10147166 |archive-date=21 October 2018 |date=8 October 2018}}

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