Framed! Meet the creators shaking up modern comics

The new golden age of comics: we talk to the writers and artists inking the changes

Japan gives Harry Potter the manga treatment

Characters from JK Rowling’s books are being turned into Manga characters in a country which appears obsessed with the Hogwarts and the wizard world

On my radar: Leanne Shapton’s cultural highlights

The Canadian writer and illustrator on her love of Ellsworth Kelly, her passion for proper doughnuts, and the wonders of King William Island

Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future review – graphic storytelling reinvented

Lauren Redniss’s stunning cultural history of the weather is thrillingly original

Comix Creatrix: where women artists and stories are the big draw

From 18th-century caricature to today’s graphic novels, women have always been at the heart of comic art – as a new showcase of 100 artists illustrates

Preacher’s AMC makeover gives fans reason to hope

Seth Rogen gave fans more clues about the direction he is taking Preacher, but will too many ‘surprises’ spoil to tale of God and some guy called Arseface

On my radar: Julie Hesmondhalgh’s cultural highlights

The actor on Oldham Street, Manchester, the magic of Slow Club, a friend’s brilliant memoir, British feature film Radiator and Lemn Sissay’s poetry

The not-so-secret history of comics drawn by women

The head of the festival that awards comics’ most prestigious prize – the Grand Prix – claimed that women don’t appear in the history of comics. He’s wrong

Alan Moore’s early comic Monster to be republished

Written in the 1980s, tale of a man who grew up locked in an attic before going on a murder rampage will be collected in a 190-page book in July. See original panels from the series below

Comic-book festival bows to pressure over all-male award shortlist

Angoulême says it will add female nominees after Daniel Clowes, Joann Sfar and Riad Sattouf pull out in protest

Social media mocks DC Comics for note saying Pakistan language is ‘Pakistanian’

The US publisher’s latest annual features an editor’s note describing text ‘translated from Pakistanian’, setting social media alight with derision

Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl, Zoolander 2 and Drake – our critics’ tips for 2016

2016 brings a show by Citizenfour director Laura Poitras, a film by sketch show master Jordan Peele, two new museums in San Francisco and much more

Wonder Woman gets back to her BDSM roots in 2016

A new Wonder Woman comic book by Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette has had prudish reviewers complaining – but bondage is part of the character’s DNA