Watchmen author Alan Moore: ‘I’m definitely done with comics’
As he releases his first short story collection, the revered writer talks about magic, the problem with superhero movies and why he will never write another graphic novel
Ducks by Kate Beaton review – powerful big oil memoir
The cartoonist mines her time working in Canada’s oil fields to paint an angry and humane picture of the destructiveness of humankind
Longest single-volume book in the world goes on sale – and is impossible to read
The 21,450-page volume of manga series One Piece is physically unreadable, to highlight how comics now exist as commodities
Stop laughing at the back: why shouldn’t Joker 2 be a musical?
With Lady Gaga and Brendon Gleeson in the cast, director Todd Phillips sequel project would sit fine with the nuttiness of the current DC universe
El Alto: graphic novel depicts Bolivia city’s future as Indigenous and robotic
Altopía imagines the bustling working-class city that overlooks neighbouring La Paz in 2053 – with coca-chewing cyborgs and minibuses with legs
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero review – eye-candy anime is gloriously mesmeric
The immensely popular franchise is back with a bewildering cast of brightly coloured characters in a world of bad guys with outrageous quiffs
Forget Batgirl, where’s Superman Lives? The inside stories of Hollywood’s biggest abandoned films
Eliot Ness hunts a killer, Nicolas Cage plays the Man of Steel and Marilyn Monroe is The Girl in Pink Tights in films that were never released. A writer, a producer and a film expert tell the movies’ hidden histories
Le Petit Nicolas illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé dies aged 89
Sempé co-created much-loved French children’s books that have sold more than 15m copies worldwide
Raymond Briggs was famous for his grumpiness – but behind the facade he was shy, thoughtful and kind
The writer and illustrator – who has died aged 88 – was a stalwart of children’s literature, but readers of all ages delighted in his characters. The cartoonist Posy Simmonds remembers the man behind the drawings
Raymond Briggs remembered: ‘He made what he did look easy. Which is, of course, what geniuses do’
The beloved writer and illustrator of the Snowman and Father Christmas has died. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute
Nick Drnaso: ‘Something about comics attracts people who have anxiety’
The literary cartoonist talks about taking graphic novels mainstream, his feelings of imposter syndrome, and processing his darkest childhood memories in his latest book
Bad luck Batgirl: the cancellation of the DC superhero’s film is only her latest misfortune
The Gotham vigilante was patronised in The Lego Batman Movie, paralysed in The Killing Joke and underwritten in Batman and Robin. Will fans never get to see Gail Simone’s nuanced and modern version of the character?
‘The establishment didn’t know what to do with me’: Sanjeev Bhaskar on marriage, success and stereotypes
Goodness Gracious Me made him a household name. Now The Sandman could bring international stardom. He talks about the bullies who tried to keep him down – and life as reluctant role model
Alan Grant obituary
British comic book writer responsible for shaping storylines for characters such as Judge Dredd, Batman and Strontium Dog
‘I can’t do superheroes, but I can do gods’: Neil Gaiman on comics, diversity and casting Death
Graphic novel The Sandman made its author into an icon. He talks about his big break in comics, the genre’s long struggle for respectability and the lavish Netflix adaptation that’s bringing his gothic hero to life