A new collection of graphic short stories, out now (April 2025) from Drawn and Quarterly/Scribe Publications.

An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship… unless it gets inside.

I Ate the Whole World to Find You maps the topography of trauma, treasures, and loss imposed onto the body of Jenny, a twenty-something-going-on-thirty-something partial hot mess who’s routing her way more firmly into adulthood. As she navigates friendship, family, and romantic relationships, will her inability to communicate destroy her, or ultimately be her rebirth? 

A coworker-turned-prospective-lover confesses a hard-to-swallow fetish. A train ride fantastically goes off the rails as old habits get dragged across the tracks. Cousins revisit summer holiday bliss—or was it really horror? Exes fumble an attempt to reconnect over a dip in the pool on a squelching summer day. And an expectant mother slips into an unusual place as she embarks on a communion with her baby more pure than language can accommodate. 

Set against an exquisitely lush Australian backdrop, Rachel Ang’s pencils are fluid yet scratchy, precise and evocative, bringing to life the inner and external world of Jenny with stunning realism and gushing imagination. Sprinkled with speculative fiction and fantasy, Ang’s radiant debut collection introduces a dynamic voice to comics, and establishes Ang as one of the most exciting short-story writers working in comics today.

Published globally by Drawn and Quarterly.

Published by Scribe Publications in Australia and Aotearoa.

Endorsements and early reviews:

Here are stories of the body’s darkest moments and profoundest ecstasies, bound up in a lush, strange, genre-defying collection. I adored this book.’
Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

Rachel Ang’s I Ate the Whole World to Find You combines my two favourite flavours: strange and evocative. They draw a beautifully reverberating world that transcends language so that we can see the splendour of it all anew. This collection is a hallucination, a holy text, an experience to return to again and again.
Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch

I Ate the Whole World to Find You is a mesmerising collection of dancing lights and shadows, sometimes perplexing and unsettling, always beautiful. Their characters navigate attraction, old hurts, and the eternal dilemma of having a body — ushered with the utmost care by Rachel Ang’s gestural, sensual cartooning.
Lee Lai, author of Stone Fruit

Rachel Ang’s graphic novel is made to be devoured. Blood-pumping and fresh … A bold, hallucinogenic collection that feels uncomfortably human.
Claire Cao, The Guardian

Ang conveys Jenny’s brooding nature, bodily discomfort, and veiled desires through believably messy slices of life. This poignant work will appeal to fans of Megan Kelso’s comics and Nicole Holofcener’s films.
Publishers Weekly

Compelling … Ang's narrative is textually minimal. Their expressive art builds layers of meaning not reliant on extensive words … Step-by-step, panel-by-panel, amid complications and challenges, Ang enables Jenny to painfully, tenaciously, figure out her own self.
Terry Hong, Shelf Awareness

The richly illustrated and imagined universe of Rachel Ang’s collection of comics I Ate the Whole World to Find You captures the vastness, the intimacy and the strangeness of human feeling … Ang’s use of light and dark stands out, not only with lush, sprawling settings but also in the thickness of panel borders shifting as characters navigate their relationships and the black page as the fragile silence of night … This collection makes the surrealities of life palpable. It is an outstanding example of what this expansive form can do.
Munira Tabassum Ahmed, ArtsHub