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
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