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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

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

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