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: 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: Illustration by Betty Kim for Catapult

Every Flavor a Ghost: A Comic

Noah Cho and Betty Kim

Cover Photo: An image of teeth being looked at by a dentist as a metaphor for consumption

When Food is the Only Narrative We Consume

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: an illustration of clouds

An Agnostic’s Longing: A Comic

We’ve listed the names we get called and the names we call ourselves. Some feel true. Others give us aches.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Oct 09, 2019

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 Nichole LeFebvre for Catapult

Falling: A Comic

I found it freeing: to accept—instead of fear—gravity, to savor that brief float before the fall.

Nichole LeFebvre

Jun 27, 2022