Hank Chu

Hank Chu stepped onto the page in 2012, born from the creative partnership of Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew — two of modern comics' most celebrated voices — as part of Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology, a landmark collection that put Asian American stories and perspectives front and center in the medium. A Modern Age character with a small but meaningful footprint, Hank shares his comics world with the legendary Golden Age figure Green Turtle, placing him in rich conversation with superhero history. With appearances spanning anthology work, Shadow Hero Comics, and even a CBLDF free comic book day edition, Hank Chu represents exactly the kind of character worth seeking out — a figure whose very existence is a statement about whose stories get told in comics and why that matters.