Fukushima, golf and Jesus on a gap year: why no subject is now off-limits for manga
Once regarded as too niche for the west, Japan’s comic genre has become a global phenomenon, generating billions of dollars. So why is it still so misunderstood?
Manga and the art of the mass-market masterpiece
As the British Museum opens the biggest exhibition of the comic-book artform outside Japan, graphic novelist Fumio Obata celebrates its enduring appeal
Stan Lee’s business manager charged with elder abuse of Marvel creator
Keya Morgan, the memorabilia dealer who became close to the comics magnate, is accused of ‘false imprisonment, forgery and fraud’
‘I’m sucking up your IQ!’: what 90s Batman tells us about Hollywood
The dialogue is corny, the heroes moody, the fights risible, but the Batman films of Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher paved the way for today’s blockbusters
Watchmen trailer: HBO reveals first look at superhero series
The network hopes to follow the end of Game of Thrones with another blockbuster series, an adaptation of the cult graphic novel
Why are comics shops closing as superheroes make a mint?
The latest Avengers film is expected to take $1bn in its opening week, but the shops that are those characters’ natural homes are battling to stay in business
It’s a #masterpiece! What if Gauguin and Monet had been on Instagram?
Illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme has imagined how great painters would have fared on social media – and the trolling their work might have received
Defying Chinese censorship: a comic dedicated to nakedness
When artist Yan Cong was told he could not print any nudity in his books, he set out to produce an anthology with characters in the buff
Hellboy review – a soulless descent into the seventh circle of tedium
The dehorned battler is reconfigured into a franchise figurehead – and loses all his devilish excitement
Funny peculiar: will Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker be the strangest DC movie yet?
Joker’s teaser promises an absorbing origins story for Batman’s nemesis. It remains to be seen how much of its twisted Gotham vision survives beyond a one-off outing
Blossoms in Autumn review by Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh – never too late to fall in love
Passion in later life between two lonely people is explored with tender sweetness
What’s the next Game of Thrones? All the contenders for fantasy TV’s crown
The saga of the Seven Kingdoms may be bowing out, but it has opened the floodgates. Here’s your guide to the next big heroes
Roy of the Rovers, Gus Gorilla and co return in comic specials
2000AD publisher Rebellion brings back Roy of the Rovers, Sweeny Toddler and more
Why don’t superheroes fall in love any more?
Romance was once an integral part of the genre but recent years have seen love interests hit the cutting room floor
Marvel shouldn’t rush to introduce the X-Men to its cinematic universe
They caught Sony’s Spider-Man in their web, but the merger of Marvel’s parent company Disney with 20th Century Fox shouldn’t let mutants overpower their MCU superheroes