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Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe: ‘Are we alone in the universe?’

The spaceman and the cartoonist

‘Great snakes!’ Tintin expert appointed UK’s first comics professor

Lancaster University shows ‘full academic commitment’ to comics and graphic book art with the appointment of Benoit Peeters

Seven things we learned from the first full trailer for Captain America: Civil War

The Avengers have disassembled, Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark is very sad indeed, and William Hurt’s General Ross is gunning for superheroes

Marvel’s Stan Lee: ‘I’d never really thought of doing comics for a living’

The legendary comic creator on coming up with characters, his new Sky 1 series and how luck is an unexplored superpower

Will Mark Millar’s plan to bring back nice superheroes turn nasty?

Disturbed by Superman breaking General Zod’s neck in 2013’s Man of Steel, the comic book icon has created a superhero with learning difficulties who does a good deed every day

Faith: a plus-size superhero drawn from real life

Now starring in her own comic, Faith Herbert is a very real kind of fantasy protagonist – and a perfect role model

Manga rows show why it’s still Japan’s medium of protest

Controversies over G7 mascot and depiction of Syrian refugee girl highlight its impact

Comic artist repurposes iTunes’ terms and conditions into graphic novel

Steve Jobs treks across comic landscapes in his black turtleneck to warn people of Apple’s in-app purchase policy and more in series by Robert Sikoryak

Tintin in London: new exhibition celebrates Hergé’s boy wonder

The free show at Somerset House explores the intrepid fictional reporter’s global fame and also examines the Belgian illustrator who created him

Blistering barnacles! Tintin is back – with added swearwords

Hergé’s adventurer is born again for the iPad age, with a new show and a digital project that puts all his expletives back in. The world’s top Tintinologist talks quiffs, colonialism – and beating Armstrong to the moon

Comics from the edge: strips tell stories of Syrians’ escape to Europe

Illustrations and animations depict torture and hardship endured by three men forced to flee their homeland

Spectre pits 007 against his greatest adversary – international exchange rates

Strong dollar holds Spectre back, Peanuts Movie bids for a new generation and The Martian becomes Ridley Scott’s highest grosser in box office analysis

Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine review – immigrants, veterans and bullies

The New Yorker cartoonist brings a miraculous blend of empathy and insight to this collection of six short stories

The Peanuts Movie review – Charlie Brown turns 21st-century klutz

On their first cinema appearance in 25 years, the Peanuts kids are still sweet and charming, but this upgrade could have taken some account of the modern world

New Yorker illustrator Adrian Tomine: ‘My inner voice says ‘You suck!”

Tomine can spend weeks on a single magazine cover, but his first love is comics. His new book Killing and Dying takes the medium to new heights of subtlety

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