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: 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: An image of the header image of the author

Second Place Language

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: 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

My mom’s cellphone rang, but there was nothing, no notification of any missed call. She said, “That was probably your dad’s ghost.”

Apr 26, 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