tina chu (she/her) is a comics + zine maker born in dense, humid Taipei, 🌾 and who mostly grew up in wide, eclectic Mississauga (Treaty 14). 🏡

From doodles on the family whiteboard to sailor mars fan art, to showing off her drawing to make friends as a fourth grade immigrant, drawing, then reading, writing and comic-making has been tina’s way to make sense (and often make fun) of her life experiences and coincidentally, our interconnected material and sociopolitical context.

When making comics and zines, tina often contemplates 🤔 how the naturalized ideologies, structures and systems of our capitalist society alienate us from our embodied selves and from our living, organic world. 🌱

🎂 Whether it’s about turning 30 as an anxious, under-accomplished 29-year-old, or feeling trapped in cycles of wage-labour burnout, or finding reclamation in a first tattoo, tina shares these meditations to remind herself (and you!) that another world is necessary and possible through collective struggle.

When not making comics + zines, tina can be found trying to amass more muscle, but never eating enough protein.

🦋 Follow tina on Bluesky @madcrush.co 

🧡 madcrush is named after a comic tina made for a continuing ed class with Fiona Smyth and the silly comics she used to snail-mail to friends detailing her crushes of the day.