Papaya Salad

In Papaya Salad, Elisa Macellari serves up a warm, visually lush slice-of-life story for Dark Horse, following a young Thai woman navigating family, food, and identity in a new country. Macellari's expressive, watercolor-style art brings the quiet moments and cultural details to vivid life, making this single-issue debut a gentle, resonant entry in the tradition of immigrant narratives in comics.