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
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising review – workies save the world
Apprentice superheroes fight the forces of evil in an anime adventure overloaded with Japanese bizarro zeal
‘I worked for a payday lender but now I’m a comic book artist’
Rees Finlay, 27, on changing careers – and how his autism diagnosis altered his life
‘A great decade for horror’: Joe Hill on the doom boom in comics
As his Locke and Key stories arrive on Netflix, the author talks about his new imprint for DC and the Basketful of Heads on its way
How cartoonist Isabel Greenberg brought the Brontës’ Angria to life
With Glass Town, the former Observer graphic short story prize winner explores the sisters’ fictional childhood landscape
One Piece: Stampede review – piratical manga mayhem
This imaginative carnival of battling buccaneers makes Pirates of the Caribbean look like Swallows and Amazons
Graphic novel New Kid wins prestigious Newbery Medal
Jerry Craft’s story exploring ‘friendship, race, class and bullying in a fresh manner’ is the first graphic novel to win the long-running American children’s award
Sandman to Hark! A Vagrant: the best comics of the decade
Old names and ambitious first-timers produced great graphic novels on everything from teen friendship and time travel to horrifying murder mysteries
Watchmen is by far the best adaptation of the comic – but should fans watch it?
HBO’s take on the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons comic succeeds where all others have failed, but it is yet another DC project made without Moore’s approval
The Tempest by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill – it’s been a blast
The last instalment in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series is dense, dizzying and satisfying
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung review – women’s struggle for space in science
A young mathematician fights her corner in postwar Michigan, in a feminist call to arms that delights in scholarship
Far Side creator Gary Larson launches website with promise of new work
Beloved cartoons, which had been retired for 24 years without any official internet presence, now have an archive site with new work in the pipeline