Catapult | The Place We Once Called Home: A Comic by Wendy Xu

Cover Photo: Wendy Xu

Cover Photo: Wendy Xu

Wendy Xu

Sep 12, 2018

Cover Photo: Liana Finck

When We Were Whole: A Comic About Us

Cover Photo: A black, white, and greyscale illustration by Sofia Warren of a woman with glasses closely inspecting a mixing bowl full of ingredients that are scattered throughout the table among discarded measuring tools. The title, "Give and Bake," floats above.

Cover Photo: a bisected illustration—image on top: hands holding incense sticks, a hand holding chopsticks; image below: a person with their hand pressed to their face, their eyes closed, as if in pain

I Do Not Want to Write Today: A Comic

Sep 12, 2018

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A Brooklyn-based illustrator and comics artist, Wendy Xu is co-creator of Mooncakes (Oni Press, 2019). She is currently working on several children's graphic novels to be published by HarperCollins."

Cover Photo: A field of fungi with the words "In the Wilds of an Open Soil with Writer Merlin Sheldrake" across it

In the Wilds of an Open Soil with Writer Merlin Sheldrake

Merlin’s poetic prose is so visual in the writing that many parts reminded me of a graphic novel.

Sep 09, 2020

Cover Photo: Illustration by the author for Catapult

Taste, Memory

“I can tell I love you because I want to give you a bite of whatever I’m eating.”

Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth

Nov 05, 2020

Cover Photo: Illustration by Betty Kim for Catapult

Every Flavor a Ghost: A Comic

Sometimes even just a minor taste of something brings old ghosts back to me.

Noah Cho and Betty Kim

Jan 20, 2021

Cover Photo: This is a black and white illustration of a moon rising over on an ocean horizon. In the sky are a set of eyes with long eyelashes. The moon is below eyes where a nose would be. There is test on the illustration that reads, "My Mother, My Ex, and Facial Feminization Surgery: A Comic by Zefyr Lisowski.

My Mother, My Ex, and Facial Feminization Surgery: A Comic

I believe so strongly in the beauty and autonomy of body transformation, but I’m worried that will erase the small visible echoes of my (and my mother’s) history of survival.

May 23, 2022