‘You need to look outside your own window’: the winner of our graphic short story prize 2020
Loneliness, isolation and grief were common themes in this year’s Cape/Observer award. But the winner made the judges laugh out loud
Graphic short story: The Worm
Ellie Durkin has been named runner-up in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2020. This is her entry
Graphic short story: Similar to But Not
Paul Rainey has been named winner in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2020. This is his entry
Best comics and graphic novels of 2020
An award-winning tale of rival ice-cream sellers, a migrant Syrian family’s experiences of the US and a superhero in drag are just some of the highlights
Boris the Menace? Beano to publish first comic for grownups
The prime minister and Dominic Cummings to feature in one-off edition BeanOLD
‘I wanted to discover the starting point of video games’: Edward Ross on new book Gamish
In his non-fiction graphic novel, the writer and comic-book artist takes us on a revealing exploration of the timeline of games – and why we play them
‘I feel joy’: how Bisha K Ali went from struggling standup to Marvel maestro
She was living on beans. Now she’s in LA writing Ms Marvel, the eagerly awaited TV series starring MCU’s first Muslim superhero. The writer talks about joyriding premiers and how to silence trolls
Moms by Yeong-shin Ma review – a joyous celebration
This remarkable South Korean tale illuminates the longings and desires of four ‘invisible’ middle-aged women
A new chapter in the evolution of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens
The historian and author on adapting his phenomenal bestseller into graphic format, and why science needs storytellers
Matt Furie on life after Pepe the Frog: ‘You have to lead by example’
The gentle creator of a cartoon that became a far-right mascot talks about the years of litigation against the likes of Alex Jones, and his ambitious new book Mindviscosity
Graphic artist Art Spiegelman on Maus, politics and ‘drawing badly’
Forty years on from ‘the first masterpiece in comic-book history’, the Pulitzer-winning cartoonist talks fame, switching styles and why he doesn’t want to draw Trump
The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow review – on the road with a raging bore
This funny story of a student’s trip abroad with her new anarchist friend will resonate with anyone who has been a fresher
Akira review – apocalyptic anime’s startling message of global annihilation
The landmark Japanese cyberpunk animation from 1988 re-emerges as a deeply strange nightmare about destruction and rebirth
Rejected Tintin artwork to be auctioned with estimate of €3m
Hergé’s original cover for The Blue Lotus auctioned 80 years after it was deemed too colourful
Welcome to the New World: Waking Up in Trump’s America – review
Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan’s story of a Syrian family trying to resettle in America is powerful and moving