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Jac Clinch has been named runner-up in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2018. This is his entry
‘Perhaps it’s a confessional’: the winner of the Cape/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2018
Emerging cartoonist Edith Pritchett won our annual award for young illustrators with a waspish tale of modern mores and flawed feminism
Drawn from experience: meet the feminist author whose comic strips hit home
After her comic strip about sharing household chores went viral last year, French graphic artist Emma got a book deal – and a lot of unsolicited advice
Posy Simmonds: ‘Women in books aren’t allowed to be total rotters’
The graphic novelist talks about drawing a modern world of art fraud, non-doms and sexting for her latest graphic novel: Cassandra Darke
Bigger dreams: how Neil Gaiman’s Sandman universe is expanding
The groundbreaking comics author has bequeathed his fantasy universe to a new generation of writers, who reveal their changes to his unconscious world
Take that, Charlie Brown! The artists putting the pain into Peanuts
Anxiety, misery, vanity, heartbreak … Snoopy and the gang were always darker than they appeared – which is why artists have reimagined them for our angst-ridden times
Anthea Bell, ‘magnificent’ translator of Asterix and Kafka, dies aged 82
Her prolific work introduced generations of English readers to writers as varied as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Cornelia Funke
Robin Ince’s top 10 books about the human condition
From Douglas Adams to Oliver Sacks, the standup comedian reveals some of the writers that have helped him try to work out what makes us tick
Square Eyes by Anna Mill and Luke Jones review – dystopia to die for
A tech pioneer loses control of her creation in this striking, intoxicating book
Fascist Spain meets British punk: the subversive genius of Judge Dredd
Carlos Ezquerra, who died this week, created twisted worlds not far from our own, writes Ian Dunt, editor of politics.co.uk
Nora Krug: ‘I would have thought, what’s left to say about Germany’s Nazi past?’
In her extraordinary graphic memoir Heimat, Krug dissects antisemitism in her own family’s history and Germany’s national guilt over the Holocaust – and the country’s recent far-right backlash
Judge Dredd co-creator Carlos Ezquerra dies aged 70
The Spanish comic book artist, who illustrated many 2000AD comics and designed the iconic lawman Dredd, has died after a lung cancer diagnosis
A graphic history of the rise of the Nazis
As nationalism and antisemitism rise again, four graphic novels on pre-war and wartime Germany offer salutary lessons on how quickly politics can turn to poison. We spoke to their authors
‘I was a real artist until I turned 11’: the anxieties of New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck
After documenting ‘micro-unkindnesses’ and advising strangers in her agony column, Finck has now trained her pen on herself in graphic memoir Passing for Human
Holy backtrack, Batman! DC withdraws caped crusader’s nude scene
After much online glee, the publisher has removed the first glimpse of the superhero’s genitals from its latest Batman issue – prompting fans to chase unaltered copies