Barry Windsor-Smith is back: ‘Monsters has been a slow and difficult experience’

After 35 years of work, the feted comic creator has published Monsters, a drama featuring Nazi science and psychic powers. He talks about Marvel and how his drawing style has evolved

Tintin heirs lose legal battle over artist’s Edward Hopper mashups

French artist Xavier Marabout wins case and €10,000 in damages after Moulinsart contacted galleries displaying his art

Fun Home review – Alison Bechdel memoir-musical adaptation burrows its way into your heart

Behind the image of a picture-perfect family is a father’s torment and an artist’s attempt to grasp at the truth

Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith – a great, grim slab of postwar angst

This long-awaited epic makes superhuman strength an unsettling backdrop to family drama

‘The process is shockingly void of communication’: how a graphic novel aims to illuminate IVF

Two-Week Wait is Luke and Kelly Jackson’s response to the challenges of fertility treatment – beyond the medical facts

Yoga, karate, skiing … Alison Bechdel on her lifelong obsession with exercise

Ever since she was a child, the Fun Home cartoonist has been fascinated by fitness. The cartoonist talks about the ‘salvation’ of running, polyamory and being seduced by a fan

DisneyMustPay: authors form task force to fight for missing payments

Coalition of author groups call for Disney to pay outstanding royalties owed to writers of novels and comics including Star Wars, Alien and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series it now owns

The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel review – no pain, all gain

The author of Fun Home reflects on self-improvement, death and her lifelong obsession with exercise in an extraordinarily generous memoir

I love superhero movies. But can I sit through a four-hour-long director’s cut?

Fans can finally watch Zack Snyder’s original vision for the Justice League – but can I really spend all afternoon in front of the TV?

Ride or Die review – bloody revenge and blossoming love in shocking Japanese thriller

A young woman hits the road with the killer of her abusive husband in Ryūichi Hiroki’s adaptation of cult manga series

Jordan Peterson ‘shocked’ by Captain America villain Red Skull espousing ‘10 rules for life’

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new comic sees Red Skull mobilising young men against ‘the feminist trap’ and other Petersonian targets

‘It was her story’: Riad Sattouf on the real girl behind his Esther comics

When the graphic novelist met an unusually chatty nine-year-old, he was so struck by her talk that he began putting it into cartoons, which have been a hit in France

Esther’s Notebooks by Riad Sattouf review – fantastically daring

The French cartoonist’s funny, well-observed stories about the life of a young girl in Paris read like an illustrated version of the TV series Up

Captain Underpants author withdraws book over ‘passive racism’

Publisher Scholastic says it will no longer distribute The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future

Marvel announces first gay Captain America

Aaron Fischer, a gay teenager, will take on the mantle in The United States of Captain America, marking the character’s 80th anniversary