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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

Ghouls, demon slayers and socially anxious students: how manga conquered the world

They range from science fiction epics to high-school romance and are selling faster than publishers can print them. But what has driven this new appetite for Japanese comics?

Eternal Spring review – animated inquisition into Falun Gong’s Chinese media hijack

The story of a TV protest by the Falun Gong movement, and its painful aftermath, is told through the eyes of exiled Chinese comic-book artist Daxiong

Illuminations by Alan Moore review – a savaging of the superhero industry

A short-story collection from the Watchmen creator takes aim at the comics industry and populist fascism in America

Je Ne Sais Quoi by Lucie Arnoux review – the loneliness of a Frenchwoman in London

The Anglophile cartoonist’s account of her new life in the capital is charming and insightful

Protesters in Iran are ‘beautiful and inspiring’, says Persepolis creator

‘What I have lived, the youth is living now,’ says Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel depicted girl’s life in 1979 Islamic revolution

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

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