Robert Crumb: ‘I was born weird’
He’s obsessed with ‘spectacular rear ends’ and describes his fans as scum. Yet comic artist Robert Crumb is somehow in danger of becoming respectable
Eisner award nominees: Oscars of the comics world is no boys’ club
Record number of female creators are on ballot and most of the comics in the best new series category feature female protagonists amid comics’ golden age
Simon Hanselmann: ‘I hate twee art. Life is not nice’
His cult comic Megg, Mogg and Owl riffs on depression and addiction. Now the TV networks want a part of it. Hanselmann speaks about his love-hate relationship with 4chan, breaking into building sites and life as ‘sentient meat’
Batman v Superman is 153 minutes of a grown man whacking two dolls together
Unlike most of the movie, this latest superhero instalment is not a dream. It is really happening to you
Frank Miller’s fascist Dark Knight is a very modern archetype
Miller presents Gotham through the ugly lens of a billionaire’s delusional, messianic fantasy – his Bruce Wayne is not so different to Donald Trump
Riad Sattouf: not French, not Syrian… I’m a cartoonist
The bestselling graphic novelist endured a traumatic childhood in Libya, Syria and France. Then he lost 12 of his colleagues in the Charlie Hebdo slaughter. Now he’s telling his life story frame by frame…
Where does Batman v Superman’s mauling leave Warner’s plan for a DC comics cinematic universe?
Zack Snyder hits every single target in Dawn of Justice’s ambitious gameplan, but can such a muddled movie really launch a new ream of superhero successes?
Australian wins global cosplay competition with necromancer outfit
Sam Mansfield, aka Major Sam, toiled away for four months on her costume, which features lit up cat skeletons and five layers of dyed silk organza
Mark Hamill, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger … whose Joker was best?
The Star Wars icon will reprise his role as Batman’s greatest nemesis in The Killing Joke; but does he hold all the aces as the top clown prince ever?
Lois Lane is far more than ‘just’ Superman’s girlfriend
Lois Lane is a brave, smart, fearless, ambitious journalist who always goes after the story – and it’s time to put her famous love interest to one side argues teen author Gwenda Bond
Ben Affleck: Robin is already dead in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
According to the star, the caped crusader is grieving the loss of his boy wonder sidekick, in Zack Snyder’s forthcoming superhero smackdown
Transmetropolitan: the 90s comic that’s bang up-to-date on Donald Trump
Warren Ellis’s series is 20 years old, set 200 years in the future – and tells you everything about the 2016 US presidential race
Joseph Gordon-Levitt quits adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman over creative differences
Gordon-Levitt had been in line to direct and star in the big-screen version of Gaiman’s graphic novel fantasy
In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way by Stéphane Heuet/Marcel Proust – review
The graphic novelist’s version of Proust’s labyrinthine classic is a sumptuous and elegant feat of concision
On my radar: China Miéville’s cultural highlights
The writer on a comic about 80s Turkey, disquieting composer Carolyn O’Brien and poet Caitlin Doherty’s tribute to the first dog in space