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Since Chu's grandmother lives there, of course she plans to visit her. The reference to Harvard’s own Tiger Mom, Amy Chua AB '84, JD '97 (with whom Amy Chu is sometimes confused), and the cliché about driven Asians and their strict child-rearing tendencies come full circle when Chu is in Toronto for Fan Expo.

I had a career in management consulting, and I have two boys-so now, it’s sweet revenge time as the ‘anti-Tiger Mom'! It’s sometimes still weird, however, when you have to explain what you do.” “I mean, I already did everything a good Asian girl is supposed to do.

“Yeah, my parents were cool with me becoming a comic book writer,” laughs Chu. in East Asian Studies from Wellesley.īefore the elephant in the room grows any larger, Chu cheerily responds to the question she is always asked: And while Chu’s followers may know her as co-founder of Alpha Girls Comics and recognize her work for industry heavyweights DC and Marvel, including Poison Ivy, Ant-Man, Deadpool, Sensation Comics Wonder and Wonder Woman ’77, what they probably don’t know is that Chu possesses an MBA from Harvard Business School, as well as a joint S.B., IV Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. We catch up with Amy Chu MBA '99 at Wizard World in New Orleans, where the renowned writer of comics including Red Sonja, KISS, and X-Files Deviations has just delighted her fans as a guest panelist at this convention celebrating the magnificence of the ever-expanding geek universe. Comic Book Writer ( Red Sonja, Poison Ivy)Īmy Chu may not have followed the stereotypical Asian-American woman's career path, but this self-confessed soccer mom is enjoying a life that features lots of coffee, whiskey, and Comic Con panels