Stella prize 2026: Lee Lai becomes first non-binary person and first graphic novelist to win with Cannon
Lai wins $60,000 literary award for her study of a young woman’s repression and rage as she struggles to juggle the needs of those around her
Gerry Conway obituary
Comic book writer and co-creator of Marvel’s avenging antihero the Punisher
The one change that worked: I swapped doomscrolling for reading comic books
After Donald Trump’s second election, I realised the insidious hold my phone had over my life. So I turned to something I’d loved in childhood to better occupy my attention
Critics assemble! Here’s my list of the greatest superhero movies of all time
Creating a definitive hierarchy never fails to spark endless debate – but who doesn’t want to give it a shot? Don your capes and shields, and let the arguments begin…
Modern heroes and a ravaged Earth: reboot of 1950s space comic Dan Dare has liftoff
Beloved characters reinvented in graphic novel coming later this year – just as interest rockets in all things space
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to Be Loved review – sword, sorcery and smartphones
Those not up to speed on the Miss Kobayashi manga may struggle with the full nuance of this dimension hopping anime, but the visuals are stunningly to look at
Tantrums, rancid meatloaf and family silver stuffed into underpants: the delicate art of the Holocaust comedy
Making light of one of the darkest horrors of the 20th century is a risky business – but a new generation is taking ownership of family histories by making space for human foibles, says an award-winning graphic novelist
Robert Crumb review – sexual deviancy elevated to an art form
Though they were created for comic books, the artist’s horny and hilarious drawings of his own neuroses, and of glamazons in thigh-high boots, are unnervingly powerful on gallery walls
Scott Adams, Dilbert creator and conservative commentator, dies aged 68
Cartoonist – who was dropped from US papers in 2023 after calling Black people a ‘hate group’ – had prostate cancer
The best graphic novels of 2025
Alison Bechdel and Joe Sacco return; plus Black Country cowboys, vengeful gods and an angling classic reimagined
Up, up and away: Superman comic found in attic sells for $9.12m to become most expensive ever sold
The pristine copy of Superman No 1, the character’s first solo title from 1939, was discovered in an attic in California last year
Angoulême comics festival in crisis as creators and publishers declare boycott
French government withdraws funding after claims of toxic management and dismissal of staff member who lodged rape complaint
The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco review – a masterclass in visual reportage
The author of Palestine turns his attention to the legacies of Indian partition in this brilliant portrait of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution review – spectacular if baffling anime is out to thrill and bewilder
Remix of old and new material from TV series includes tremendous battle sequences but there’s an awful lot of lore for new viewers to catch up with
100 Meters review – mesmerising anime of young athletes in search of physical and spiritual high
Dazzling rotoscoped running sequences make up for a lack of narrative subtlety in Kenji Iwaisawa’s film