Your Wish Is My Command by Deena Mohamed review – a spellbinding fantasy from Egypt
The young author’s debut graphic novel brings magic to modern Cairo in an imaginative story of grief, faith and urban life
That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond review – high-spirited anime
This playful tale about an ogre samurai, a poisoned queen and a demonic pool of talking slime has a lot of confusing lore for the uninitiated to catch up on
Graphic novelist Deena Mohamed: ‘People seem to love how Egyptian my work is’
The author of the hit Cairo-set novel – set to be a future classic – on going viral with her first web comic and growing up reading Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie
Artist by Yeong-shin Ma – middle-aged men behaving badly
This darkly comic tale of three hapless and macho males fixes a boldly satirical eye on Korean society
The Quintessential Quintuplets review – sisters compete for love in charming anime
The premise of a high-school tutor forced to choose which of his students to marry could have been disastrous but this romantic fantasy film avoids ickiness
Terror in the Antarctic: graphic novels revisit the horror of the ‘worst journey in the world’
A century on from the publication of Cherry Apsley-Garrard’s classic book about Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition, a new graphic novel version revisits his terrible tale
The best comics and graphic novels of 2022
A pandemic stream-of‑consciousness, an artist in the making and a bird society on the moon are among this year’s favourites
Graphic short story: Midnight Feast by Rebecca Jones
Rebecca Jones has been named winner in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2022. This is her entry
Graphic short story: Autumn 2014 by Michael Lightfoot
Michael Lightfoot has been named joint runner-up in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2022. This is his entry
Graphic short story: The Lift by Ed Firth
Ed Firth has been named joint runner-up in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2022. This is his entry
‘What will I spend the money on? Pens’: the winner of our graphic short story prize 2022
It was seventh time lucky for Rebecca Jones in this year’s Observer/Faber award for emerging cartoonists with her story of three girls camping out in a suburban garden
Heartstopper author Alice Oseman: ‘If you don’t have sex and romance, you feel like you haven’t achieved’
The writer and illustrator on turning her ‘weird hobby’ into a bestselling YA series and Netflix hit, the importance of asexual representation and lessons from her fans on love bites
Pow! Why female writers are a top draw in the world of comics
As 15,000 fans gather in Yorkshire this weekend, authors tell how the male domination of the genre was broken
Ever had a weirdly intense friendship? Tommi Parrish’s latest book is for you
The Australian artist and author spent three years hand-painting Men I Trust, a graphic novel about a relationship that becomes uncomfortably ambiguous
‘Remarkable’, ‘gorgeous’, ‘entertaining’: the best Australian books out in November
Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick out the upcoming titles they’ve already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on