Formerly an assistant editor at DC Comics, he is now an illustrator, known for his work on Human Target,[1] Beware the Creeper and Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre, Green Arrow/Black Canary, Wonder Woman and Paper Girls.

Chiang wrote an 8-part Dr. Thirteen back-up story, "Architecture & Mortality", in Tales of the Unexpected with writer Brian Azzarello.

[3] In July 2012, as part of San Diego Comic-Con, Chiang was one of six artists who, along with DC co-publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio, participated in the production of "Heroic Proportions", an episode of the Syfy reality television competition series Face Off, in which special effects were tasked to create a new superhero, with Chiang and the other DC artists on hand to help them develop their ideas.

The winning entry's character, Infernal Core by Anthony Kosar, was featured in Justice League Dark #16 (March 2013),[4][5] which was published January 30, 2013.

[7] In 2015, Cliff began working on writer Brian K. Vaughan's creator-owned series for Image Comics, Paper Girls, for which Chiang won the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Penciller/Inker.