My brother the superhero: how the death of comic book legend Steve Dillon inspired a creative awakening

Glyn Dillon designed costumes for Star Wars, while his brother Steve created the Preacher comic strip. When Steve died at 54, Glyn bought a ladder and some vast canvases - and poured his grief into painting

Neal Adams obituary

Artist who reinvented the look of classic characters for Marvel and DC Comics and fought for the rights of illustrators

Spider-Man at 20: the superhero film that changed blockbuster cinema

Sam Raimi’s charming, if patchy, 2002 adventure showed that mass audiences were eager for a new kind of superhero and the industry never looked back

Brave New World by Fred Fordham review – brilliant Huxley reboot

This rip-roaring graphic retelling of the Aldous Huxley classic brings to mind Fritz Lang, Spielberg and vintage comics

Heartstopper review – possibly the loveliest show on TV

This sweet, heartwarming adaptation of Alice Oseman’s web comic about love between two British grammar school boys is wholesome to the point of retro – and like a hug in TV form

Marvel comics join literary canon in special edition by Penguin Classics

Spider-Man, Black Panther and Captain America in black spine format complete with scholarly introduction

Two Heads by Uta Frith, Chris Frith, Alex Frith and Daniel Locke – review

With the aid of slapstick jokes and witty footnotes, husband and wife neuroscientists and their son shed light on the workings of the brain in this joyful and fabulously original book

An evil bear, a tinpot Churchill, a vile virus… My sketch show for our times

The Tories won by a landslide, Brexit got done, Covid loomed… and the Observer cartoonist Chris Riddell picked up his pen. Here he tells of his daily ritual

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 review – sorcerer anime series gets a spectacular prequel

This masterful coming-of-age tale sees the process of coming to terms with past traumas through a horror-fantasy lens

Long Live My Happy Head review – comic book artist illustrates his own mortality

Scottish artist Gordon Shaw talks cancer and comic books in this tender study of a man facing an uncertain future

Beat it Batman – this foppish baronet was the world’s first superhero

Wonder Woman, Iron Man, Superman, Black Widow ... they can all trace their origins back to an exiled Hungarian baroness who dreamed up The Scarlet Pimpernel while riding the London Tube

Keeping Two by Jordan Crane review – a spectacular ode to seizing the day

The award-winning cartoonist’s inspiring new work, 20 years in the making, is a wild and discursive story with a potent message

Art Spiegelman on Maus and free speech: ‘Who’s the snowflake now?’

Since his early days in the underground comix scene, Spiegelman has reveled in ‘saying the unsayable’ and subverting convention

Diego Rivera by Francisco de la Mora and José Luis Pescador review – rumbustious hymn to a radical artist

The eventful life of Frida Kahlo’s revolutionary husband makes for a rich, energetic graphic biography

Graphic short story: Cancer Sells!

Tat Effby has been named joint runner-up in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2021. This is her entry