Kate Hepburn obituary
Designer and artist who worked for Spare Rib, the Monty Python team and Pink Floyd
Emma Calder obituary
Animator and illustrator whose film Beware of Trains led to a retrospective of her work in Austria in 2023
Belgian comic book withdrawn amid outrage over racist depictions
Publisher ‘profoundly sorry’ for hurt caused by Spirou and the Blue Gorgon as it recalls 30,000 copies from shops
‘They remind me there’s a life after cancer’: how paintings in NHS hospitals help patients feel better
Feedback on the benefits of displaying pictures on wards, now gathered in a new book, is backed by scientific studies
On my radar: Noreen Masud’s cultural highlights
The writer and academic on stories and poetry from Gaza, an exhibition of friendship, and the cat rescue website she prefers to dating apps
‘I was high, drawing my self-portrait in a toaster’: the thrilling return of graphic novelist Charles Burns
The comics artist’s book Black Hole made him a cult hero, revered for his horror-tinged tales of US teens. He talks about the memory that broke chronic writer’s block – and why his books haven’t been filmed
October design news: a teeny tiny toffee, rag rugs and $1 watches
Sculptors take part in the 10gram Challenge, arty Instagram and creative director Ramdane Touhami’s textiles
Tove Jansson murals, with hidden Moomins, seen for first time in Helsinki show
Paradise exhibition focuses on public works for factory walls, hospitals and nurseries – long before Moominmania took hold
On my radar: Jacques Audiard’s cultural highlights
The film director on the music he works to, educating himself via podcasts, and why the Paris Olympics was a pleasant surprise
Where punk meets Catholicism: Andrea Modica’s portraits of 1980s schoolgirls
While a photography student at Yale, Modica visited her old school and found the captivating subject she’d been looking for: teens whose big hair, eyeliner and rolled-up skirts still radiate personality decades later
John Keats statue to be unveiled near his birthplace in London’s Moorgate
Martin Jennings – whose previous public sculptures include John Betjeman, George Orwell and Philip Larkin – has based his bronze on a life cast of the poet, taken when he was 21
‘Art and music have always been like friends to me’: painter to the stars Jack Coulter
The Irish artist talks about his synaesthesia and being mutually inspired by musicians such as Elton John and Paul McCartney
‘Immensely private’: inside great sketchbooks from history
The V&A has delved into its archives to showcase the embryonic work of leading artists including Leonardo and Constable along with lesser-known talents
Discovered: a lost possible inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
A painting by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell that went missing for 60 years will go on show in London in November
Ed McLachlan obituary
Cartoonist whose work appeared in Punch, Private Eye, the Spectator and the Oldie in a 60-year career