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
Richard Woods: a Wellsian war of the World Cup
The Giants of Football, winner of the Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2015, sees aliens battling at Anfield in a pitch invasion from outer space
Back Soon by Seokhan Jung – comic
Seokhan Jung has been named runner-up in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize. This is his entry
The Giants of Football by Richard Woods – comic
Richard Woods has been awarded the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2015. This is his winning entry
‘That’s not poetry; it’s sociology!’ – in defence of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen
Made up of prose, photographs and an essay on Serena Williams, this award-winning collection isn’t easy to categorise – but it’s as much a poem as The Waste Land
James Cameron recruits Robert Rodriguez to direct manga adaptation Battle Angel Alita
Working on live-action version of 90s comic-book series has left Avatar director and Sin City film-maker ‘like two kids building a go-kart’, says Cameron
Thor 3 set to feature female superhero Valkyrie
Chris Hemsworth’s hammer-happy Marvel hero to team up with the figure from the original Avengers comics in forthcoming sequel
Blade Rave: the club night where blood rains from the ceiling
This weekend, a thousand partiers got drenched in fake blood in an homage to the Wesley Snipes film while dancing to the Crystal Method
Comic relief: should writers and artists charge fans for autographs?
Some creators say fans should pay a fee for signatures at comic conventions, but can the magic of science fiction and fantasy survive the market in autographs?
Six reasons not to write off Drew Goddard’s Spider-Man v Sinister Six movie
The Cabin in the Woods director still wants to shoot his epic supervillain smackdown - and it might just work now Spidey’s joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Life as a hotel chambermaid: ‘If I didn’t finish in time, I had to work unpaid until I did’
The poor working conditions of British hotel staff are movingly illustrated in a graphic story by a former chambermaid – a Polish artist living in London
Which superhero are you? Quiz
Feel the urge to fly? Dream of having super-strength? Find out once and for all which superhero you are by taking our super quiz!
Kapow! The unstoppable rise of female comic readers
According to Facebook likes, the gender gap in comic readers is narrowing. With proliferating female writers and an all-girl Avengers A-force, has the stereotype of the lonely male comic nerd gone for good?
Step Aside Pops by Kate Beaton review – hairy heroines and fierce laughs
The young Canadian cartoonist behind the Hark! A Vagrant website pulls no punches with her second collection of scattershot feminist musings
My highlight: Manga now by Timon Screech
Unlike its equivalents in the west, manga in Japan is taken seriously as art. The new exhibition at the British Museum showcases the images of Tetsuya Chiba, Yukinobu Hoshino and Hikaru Nakamura