Sabba Khan and Maisie Chan triumph in Jhalak prizes for writers of colour
Khan wins for her ‘timeless’ debut graphic novel, The Roles We Play, while Chan takes the children’s and YA award for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
Funny Pages review – a deliciously dark coming-of-age comedy
Owen Kline fuses teen innocence with adult sexuality in a bad-taste debut film that recalls American Splendor and Crumb
The Con Artists by Luke Healy review – a beautifully observed masterpiece
It’s the little things that strike a chord in this funny, melancholy book about the curdling of a friendship between two single gay men
‘Unflinching’: Villawood graphic novel wins book of the year at NSW premier’s literary awards
Safdar Ahmed’s Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System lands top prize and $30,000, alongside books by Tony Birch and Kate Holden
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