Hometown by Shaun Tan review – another masterpiece from the acclaimed author-illustrator

The mind behind The Arrival returns with a triumph of a graphic novel, a vivid fable about a girl who is told by a stranger that she doesn’t belong in the only world she knows

Look Back review – Kore-eda’s ode to friendship, manga and artistic success

Two obsessive artists team up to achieve their dreams, but then their aspirations diverge

Zack Snyder is angling to make another Batman movie. Stranger things have happened

Two Batman projects are already in the making at DC Studios, but Snyder has set his sights on the classic Frank Miller graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns

‘It leaves holes inside of you’: graphic novel aims to remember the history and horror of genocide

Dana Mashoian Walrath’s The Book of Genocides is an audacious and personal new look at genocides from Germany to Palestine

Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there

A graphic novel by Melissa Chan and Badiucao imagines China and the US at war in 2035. They hope to remind young people that ‘authoritarianism everywhere is bad’

Art Spiegelman: ‘The US needs a counter-revolution’

More than four decades after his Holocaust story Maus transformed the graphic novel genre, Art Spiegelman discusses Trump, the shadow of 9/11 and the rise of fascism in America

Death Note: The Musical review – wildly popular manga mystery is a killer night out

The multi-platform phenomenon makes its way to the stage, with all the supernatural hijinks, J-horror tropes and emotional intensity intact

The Ribbon Hero review – do-gooder princess battles giant flying earwigs in update of classic yarn

Yûki Igarashi’s adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s influential manga is a conservative (if impressively animated) reimagining that dulls the source material’s pioneering elements

The end of Heartstopper is a bittersweet loss – it’s never felt scarier to be young and queer

The gay Netflix romance maintained a political edge despite rollbacks to queer and trans rights

Supergirl: doggy distress, frontier justice and a new direction for superhero movies – discuss with spoilers

Craig Gillespie’s far-out adventure is something of a quirky oddity compared to bigger blockbuster outings – so why is it failing to fly at the box office?

Dina Nayeri: Marjane Satrapi brought Iranian women like me out of hiding

The Persepolis author understood us and translated us for the world. We have lost our most eloquent spokesperson

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…