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
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Protesters in Iran are ‘beautiful and inspiring’, says Persepolis creator
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Watchmen author Alan Moore: ‘I’m definitely done with comics’
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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