Medicine: A Graphic History by Jean-Noël Fabiani and Philippe Bercovici – review
These tales of diseases and cures by a French surgeon and his cartoonist sidekick will have you in stitches
My favourite book as a kid: Spider-Man – Kraven’s Last Hunt
As a child I found these comics, where the superhero’s foe first kills him then co-opts his identity, intensely disturbing. Today, I am filled with hope
Extraction review – hokey, high-octane action thriller
Chris Hemsworth plays a super-tough mercenary on an all-guns-blazing mission to rescue a crime lord’s kidnapped son
‘This is beyond the Great Depression’: will comic books survive coronavirus?
As Marvel cuts staff and publishers stop selling new titles, artists, shop owners and writers worry for the future of an industry worth billions
My favourite book as a kid – Tintin: The Shooting Star by Hergé
Despite some dodgy politics, this is an ingenious riff on international rivalry and has an inspiring friendship at its core
Albert Uderzo obituary
Illustrator who with the writer René Goscinny created the much-loved comic books featuring the exploits of Asterix the Gaul
Asterix: a world of joyful innocence born in the aftermath of war
Goscinny and Uderzo’s cheery comic-book parodies reflected none of the real horror of Roman imperialism – and painted an irresistible portrait of postwar Europe
Illustrator Albert Uderzo drew me in to Asterix’s world with deftness and care
The way Uderzo’s comic book panels progressed from rudimentary was an important lesson for a child
Asterix creator Albert Uderzo dies at 92
French comic-book artist, who created Asterix with the writer René Goscinny, dies at home ‘from a heart attack unrelated to the coronavirus’
On Ajayi Crowther Street by Elnathan John and Àlàbá Ònájìn review – graphic novel
Family dramas, feuds, death and disgrace in a Lagos-set morality tale
80 years of Robin: the forgotten history of the most iconic sidekick
They were bold, badass – and brief. But Batman’s short-lived female sidekicks give us hope that women in comics are good for more than just sticking in a fridge
Dear dairy: one graphic novelist’s fixation with the world of ice-cream vans
Matthew Dooley’s elegiac debut Flake tells of rival ice-cream salesmen. It’s warm, affectionate and full of outrageous puns. Walt Whipman, anyone?
Steven Appleby: ‘Cross-dressing in secret felt dishonest and stifling’
His new graphic novel, Dragman, follows the adventures of a cross-dressing superhero. The artist explains how drawing the character made him realise he’d had enough of leading a double life
Dragman by Steven Appleby review – a secret identity with a difference
The cartoonist’s superhero yarn explores cross-dressing with humour and warmth
Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg review – inside the Brontës’ dreamworld
The imaginary realms of the Brontë sisters offer an escape from Victorian constraints in a graphic novel that blurs fiction and memoir