Snoopin’ on Snoopy: exploring Santa Rosa, Charles Schulz’s hometown

Charlie Brown and Snoopy live on in the new Peanuts movie. And the spirit of the comic strip’s creator, Charles Schulz, survives in a museum in Santa Rosa, California – exactly the sort of town you’d expect to find these all-American heroes

Star Wars’ stories should not be limited to the cinema narratives

As with classical myths, the ‘para-canonical’ material – comics, novelisations and more – is just as legitimate as the big-screen tales

Snoopy & Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie review – wry comic strip update

Colourful 3D animation brightens up the beloved creations of Charles Schulz, but the humour and observations remain the same

The Peanuts Movie: classic cartoon strip gets a 21st-century revamp

Charles Schulz’s much-loved cartoon, once read by 355 million people, is hitting the big screen, 65 years after it was born

The 10 best vicars

Christmas is a busy time of year for the clergy – here we rate the top revs in culture

So you’d like to get into highbrow comics. Here’s where to start

From superheroes to memoirs, there’s never been a richer time for comic books. But where does one start with a genre that is exploding so quickly?

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe – funny, precise and beautifully designed

From helicopters to a human cell, a fascinating illustrated guide to the science and technology of everyday life

The Eternaut review – hero in a homemade diving suit

Brilliantly mixing sci-fi with politics, this gripping comic strip is an institution in Latin America

X-Men: Apocalypse – five things we learned from the first full trailer

Among other things, Oscar Isaac’s omnipotent big daddy mutant is a sizeable foe; Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey is front and centre; and James McAvoy’s Professor X finally has a canonical haircut

Top 10 uncanny graphic novels

From Neil Gaiman’s evil Mr Punch to Hannah Berry’s characters in eerie peril on a night train, these are stories full of seasonal unease

The best graphic books of 2015

A life of Picasso, a brush with a shark and a gripping take on the Middle East

On my radar: Jeffrey Lewis’s cultural highlights

The singer-songwriter and comic book artist on the brilliance of band biographies, the joys of Jon Allen’s comic books and the horrors of war

Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons

Charlie Brown – the anxious, bungling Peanuts cartoon antihero meant more to Stuart Jeffries as a boy than any rip-roaring adventurer

Anish and Antony to the rescue! Can the sculptors gentrify Afghanistan?

A merciless graphic novel imagines what would happen if Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley were dropped on Afghanistan. Its creator explains his hallucinatory romp

Which books can help me understand what it’s like to be bombed?

As our politicians decide whether to bomb Syria, the Book Doctor picks out books that help us understand what it’s like to be threatened by bombs, from Robert Westall’s The Machine Gunners to Joe Sacco’s Palestine