Far Side creator Gary Larson publishes first new cartoons in 25 years

After coming out of retirement, the cartoonist says digital technology has allowed him to rediscover the fun of drawing

The Old Guard review – Netflix immortality thriller won’t live long in the memory

Not even Charlize Theron can save an action movie crying out for a comic touch to match the silliness of its premise

Paying the Land by Joe Sacco review – a triumph of empathy

The painful history of the Northwestern Territory’s indigenous people takes the celebrated cartoonist away from AK47s and mortar shells, and into a different kind of war

Graphic novel about warring ice-cream trucks scoops first for Wodehouse prize

Matthew Dooley’s Flake wins the annual award for comedic fiction ‘in the spirit’ of the Jeeves and Wooster creator PG Wodehouse

The Summer of Her Life by Thomas von Steinaecker and Barbara Yelin – review

The rich memories of an elderly German woman are brought vividly to life

Radioactive review – Marie Curie biopic fast-forwards to Hiroshima

Rosamund Pike plays the physicist with dignity and froideur in this respectful drama that shows her brilliant discoveries – and their effects

Blam! Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger to teach British pupils about money

Bank of England and Beano team up in primary school course on financial literacy

How do you stop the far-right using the Punisher skull? Make it a Black Lives Matter symbol

Gerry Conway, co-creator of the popular Marvel outlaw, has been appalled to see his iconography appropriated by white supremacists - and aims to turn the tables

Virus Tropical review – energetic, dazzling animated rite of passage

With nods to telenovelas and Persepolis, this animation, a film of Power Paola’s vivid graphic novel memoir of growing up in South America, is truly beautiful

A comic for Covid-19: the tale of a plague-hit Derbyshire village

Nick Burton’s Our Plague Year draws eerie parallels between Eyam in 1665-66 and today – complete with self-sacrifice, selfish second-homers and confusing public messages

Trump campaign attempts to remove satirical cartoon from online retailer

Cartoonist Nick Anderson calls president ‘adolescent’ after work parodying bleach-injection claim sparked a legal manoeuvre

The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge review – powerfully strange

A gritty and humorous postwar Japan is depicted in these early works by the influential manga cartoonist

‘Film is just one way to tell a story’: Duncan Jones on his comic book sequel to Moon

The writer-director turned to comics because his next story would have been too costly to film. He and his ‘Yoda’ Alex de Campi explain their very timely project

‘They were forgotten’: the great female cartoonists who have been overlooked

In a new online exhibition, the work of 50 women in comics is being celebrated from the late 19th century to the present day

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