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: Illustration by the author for Catapult

Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth

Cover Photo: An illustration of a Chinese American woman seated on a table in an art studio, smoking a cigarette

The Life and Times of Bernice Bing

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

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: Sara Lautman for Catapult

What Haunted Maurice Sendak?: A Comic

“I mean, the life of a child! What they see and what they hear, and what they choose not to discuss.”

Oct 24, 2018

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

I don’t want to write today. I don’t want to write about violence today. I don’t want to write about honor or duty or respect today.

May 25, 2021

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