The Flapper Queens by Trina Robbins review – a luscious curation
The jazz age is brought to vivid life in this showcase of six dazzling female cartoonists
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist review – Adrian Tomine’s memoir of a life in art
With wit and brutal honesty, Tomine examines the absurdity of the comic-book industry and his own fragile ego
Adrian Tomine: ‘Cartoons seemed like the surest path to being a hermit’
It’s safe to say the US cartoonist is ambivalent about his own success. His latest book charts the everyday humiliations of his trade in hilarious detail
Wendy, Master of Art review – witty graphic novel unleashes hipster hell
Time for Lacanian sculpture and the semiotics of string in this third outing for Walter Scott’s winningly messy heroine
Women speak out about Warren Ellis: ‘Full and informed consent was impossible’
Scores of women are publishing details of their relationships with the Transmetropolitan writer, who they say offered mentorship in exchange for sexual contact. But they don’t want him cancelled - they want a conversation
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