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: An image of a woman in an river orange river. The background of the river is a cityscape. The header reads: "Drawing Grief" a comic by Yao Xiao

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: An illustration of a ghostly figure with long hair and wide eye without pupils, sitting on the body of a young terrified woman

The Ghost That Sits on Your Chest

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: Shing Yin Khor

Say It with Noodles: On Learning to Speak the Language of Food

I have forgotten how to speak two languages. But I have learned this one.

Feb 27, 2018

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

A lesbian Chinese American painter, she defied definition, which is why I was so fascinated by her.

May 11, 2021

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