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
‘The outrage had been percolating…’ The winner of our graphic short story prize 2021
A funeral in Germany provides the setting for our winning story in this year’s Cape/Observer/Comica award for emerging cartoonists
Graphic short story: Andrew
A Wolfgang Crowe has been named joint runner-up in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2021. This is his entry
Graphic short story: A Funeral in Freiburg
Astrid Goldsmith has been named winner in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2021. This is her entry
The shrimp returns: beloved flamenco singer Camarón stars in graphic novel
Thirty years after his death, the rich life of the Spanish Gypsy singer is depicted through 10 illustrated episodes