Cliff Chiang
Eisner Award-winning artist and co-creator of Paper Girls and the acclaimed Catwoman: Lonely City; celebrated for his runs on Wonder Woman and Human Target.
📍 New Jersey
Cliff Chiang draws comics that feel like they were always meant to exist. Whether he’s sending four paper girls through time, redrawing Wonder Woman for a new generation, or turning Gotham upside down with a middle-aged Catwoman, his work has a clean, confident elegance that makes impossible worlds feel lived-in. He is one of the most influential artists of his generation — and, with Paper Girls, the co-creator of one of the most beloved comics of the 2010s.
From Editor to Artist
Chiang studied English literature and visual arts at Harvard before cutting his teeth as an editor at Disney Adventures and Vertigo/DC, then going freelance. His breakout work came in the early 2000s with Human Target and Green Arrow/Black Canary, but it was his 2011-2014 run on Wonder Woman with writer Brian Azzarello that cemented his reputation: a radical, horror-tinged reimagining of the Greek gods that gave Diana a fierce, geometric elegance and won over readers and critics alike.
Paper Girls and Beyond
In 2015 he teamed with Brian K. Vaughan on Paper Girls, a time-travel mystery about four 1988 newspaper delivery girls who get swept into a war across the decades. It was an instant hit — an Eisner winner that Amazon adapted into a Prime Video series, and a showcase for Chiang’s gift for expressive faces and the awe of small-town kids seeing the future. He followed it with Catwoman: Lonely City (2021), a standalone original graphic novel he wrote, drew, colored, and lettered himself, imagining an older Selina Kyle returning to a Gotham rebuilt after tragedy. It was hailed as a career highlight and won him an Eisner.
Where to Find Chiang
Chiang lives and works in New Jersey, and remains one of the most in-demand artists in the industry, with work for DC, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and beyond. Follow him on Twitter or Instagram, or browse his portfolio at cliffchiang.com. And if you haven’t read his masterpiece yet, pick up Paper Girls: The Complete Story — the definitive collection of the Eisner-winning time-travel epic, drawn by the artist who made four kids on bikes the most compelling heroes of the decade. Fans of Saga and Vaughan’s other collaborations will feel right at home.
