Jenna Cha

Jenna Cha is an American comic book writer and artist best known for her work on horror comics Black Stars Above and the ongoing series The Sickness.

Early and personal life Cha grew up emulating silly cartoon strips like Calvin and Hobbes and Garfield before being "accidentally, unwittingly and unwarrantedly" introduced to horror comics in middle school. She graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in comic art. While there, she interned with American comic artist Paul Fricke.

Cha is married to comic writer Lonnie Nadler, the co-creator of Black Stars Above. It was longlisted for a Bram Stoker Award.

After getting Black Stars Above greenlit on a written pitch alone, Lonnie Nadler needed an artist. He frequently scrolled through social media for new comic book artists, and stumbled across Cha's social media on Twitter from a #VisibleWoman post. The collection was first published in print in 2024. Cha's work on The Sickness has been called a "tour de force" of art with "impeccably researched and perfectly-realized" set pieces, with her artwork being called "grim, unsettling, and disturbing in all the right way(s)".