Wendy Xu is an award-nominated Brooklyn-based illustrator and comics artist with three upcoming graphic novels from Harper Collins.

She is the co-creator of "Mooncakes", a young adult fantasy graphic novel published in 2019 from Lion Forge Comics/Oni Press. Part of it can be read on mooncakescomic.tumblr.com. Her work has been featured on Catapult, Barnes & Noble Sci-fi/Fantasy Blog, and Tor.com, among other places. You can find more art on her instagram: @artofwendyxu or on twitter: @angrygirLcomics

Wendy is represented by Linda Camacho at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency. Please direct all professional inquiries to her agent via email: linda@galltzacker.com.

Press

• The Beat - “A Year of Free Comics: Calla and the Forest Gods is Breathtaking Fantasy” (2020)

• Mooncakes as one of “9 Buzzy 2019 Releases from BookCon and BookExpo” (2019)

• Publisher’s Weekly Deal of the Week: May 27 (2019)

• Mooncakes Cover Reveal on Hollywood Reporter (2019)

• Watch: Wendy Xu Sketches Mooncakes Characters (Syfy Wire) (2018)

• Mooncakes graphic novel announced in Publisher's Weekly (2017)

• Mooncakes reviewed on Autostraddle (2016)

• Mooncakes reviewed on Women Write About Comics (2016)

Awards and Nominations

• Mooncakes nominated for Ignatz Award - “Outstanding Comic”

• Mooncakes nominated for Hugo Award - “Best Graphic Story or Comic”

• Mooncakes nominated for Favorite Webcomic - Serial; nominated for Favorite Artist in the Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards (2016)