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Madame Choi and the Monsters by Patrick Spät and Sheree Domingo review – the stuff of blockbusters

The astonishing real-life tale of how North Korea kidnapped an actor and her film director ex-husband makes for a fascinating graphic history

‘I am nothing if not persistent’: Lesley Imgart, winner of our graphic short story prize 2024

It was fifth time lucky for Imgart in this year’s Observer/Faber award for emerging cartoonists, with her spellbinding tale about the life of a young witch

Can DC really pull off a Sgt Rock movie with Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino on board?

It’s the unlikeliest match-up of the year – having collaborated on Queer, rumours are the pair are bringing the gruff comic book soldier to the screen

Belgian comic book withdrawn amid outrage over racist depictions

Publisher ‘profoundly sorry’ for hurt caused by Spirou and the Blue Gorgon as it recalls 30,000 copies from shops

Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom review – intriguing fantasy franchise is far from your average anime

Its Game of Thronesian intrigue, benevolent Skeletor protagonist and surprising lack of gratuitous violence sets this series apart

‘I was high, drawing my self-portrait in a toaster’: the thrilling return of graphic novelist Charles Burns

The comics artist’s book Black Hole made him a cult hero, revered for his horror-tinged tales of US teens. He talks about the memory that broke chronic writer’s block – and why his books haven’t been filmed

‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump

Enthusiasm can be a productive force for good, but our culture has rapidly become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in

Anti-fossil fuel comic that went viral in France arrives in UK

World Without End topped bestseller lists but was criticised for embracing nuclear power

My Hero Academia: You’re Next review – old-style superhero battle anime with hint of the surreal

The fourth film spin-off from the daffy Japanese X-Men knock-off beams its dream-like action into a flying fortress where victims are turned into superfolk

‘I need positive things to come of this’: graphic novelist rocked by brother’s suicide donates profits to charity

Award-winning Zoe Thorogood hopes the money raised can help halt rising numbers of young men taking own lives

The Great When by Alan Moore review – a riotous tour of occult London

With bravura brilliance, the Watchmen author conjures up a hyperreal fugitive city, populated by rogues and reprobates

Hellboy: The Crooked Man review – sputtering mess even a metric ton of makeup can’t conceal

A boring nemesis in a top hat bops around cackling while a wan Hellboy is enlisted to save a local man’s sweetheart in this inexplicable successor

Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram review – cult anime goes on wild treasure hunt

The latest outing for the high school sleuth sees him join forces with his arch enemy, a master thief. Despite some flashes of brilliance, the script soon becomes convoluted

Final Cut by Charles Burns review – a book to be read and reread

A horror movie shoot grows complicated for a group of young friends in a rich story of anxiety and betrayal steeped in dread

Lord of the Flies at 70: how a classic was reimagined as a graphic novel

Dutch illustrator Aimée de Jongh talks about turning William Golding’s haunting novel into a visual artwork, while the author’s daughter and others reflect on its evolving message of humanity

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