Iman Vellani Makes Her Solo Writing Debut With ‘Chachu’
Image Comics announced Chachu, a five-issue miniseries written by Iman Vellani, best known for playing Kamala Khan in Ms. Marvel on Disney+, with art by Marianna Ignazzi and colors by Jordie Bellaire. Vellani describes the series as growing out of her own coming-of-age experiences in the entertainment industry.
Here’s the synopsis for Chachu from Image:
Set in 1979, Chachu follows Leila, a 19-year-old Pakistani-Canadian girl with a penchant for film and pulp novels, who travels to California hoping to connect with her estranged uncle—her “Chachu”—a middle-aged, semi-retired private eye once famous for marrying the starlet he was initially hired to find. But when his wife mysteriously vanishes once again, the two are forced on an impromptu road trip investigation that transforms her first taste of adulthood into a thrilling confrontation of family secrets, unresolved grief, and the fantasies both she and Chachu have built their lives around.
"I've always been deeply curious about comics as an art form because of their capacity to hold contradiction — arguably better than any other medium," said Vellani. "That became especially meaningful to me while writing Chachu, which grew out of this tension between mourning my youth while I still have it, and an incessant urge to come-of-age already."
Chachu #1 is on sale August 2026.
