Why graphic novels are more than picture perfect
Rachel Cooke, one of the judges on this year's Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story prize, explains how she learned to love picture books and reveals some of her personal favourites
Daniel Clowes: ‘You’ve got to be obsessed’
Daniel Clowes talks to Rachel Cooke about his latest graphic novel, Wilson, and the beauty of difficult characters
The prints of darkness
Forget Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman, meet the real king of comic-strip horror
Frank Frazetta obituary
A prolific painter of fantasies that adorned book covers, film posters and rock LPs
Tintin’s adventures in Congo goes on trial in Belgium
Tintin in the Congo is racist, ignorant and offensive, Congolese campaigner tells Belgian court
Philippa Perry: ‘I love Susie Orbach and Harvey Pekar comics – so I wrote Couch Fiction, a comic book about psychotherapy’
Philippa Perry, wife of artist Grayson Perry, tells Rachel Cooke why she's brought her job and her love of comics together in her book, Couch Fiction
Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon
Comic books, crime fiction, ghost stories… In a series of essays, novelist Michael Chabon argues that entertainment should be the primary role of fiction, writes Olivia Laing
Jane Goldman: Meet the screenwriter of the controversial new film Kick-Ass
Jane Goldman's new film Kick-Ass is the story of a foul-mouthed 11-year-old girl assassin. The screenwriter wife of Jonathan Ross and mother of three admits to a 'geeky' enthusiasm for comic books and violent video games, writes Elizabeth Day
Is Hollywood big enough for two Spideys?
Descendants of Marvel artist Jack Kirby sue for rights to create their own film versions of Spidey and Iron Man
Baron Cohen on track for Scorsese’s Invention
Sacha Baron Cohen is tipped for roles in Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the children's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret as well as the third Men in Black movie
The best contemporary Japanese novel is a manga
Chris Michael: The ingeniously satirical Legend of Koizumi tells you far more about the country, far more entertainingly than any novel of recent years
Walking the Dog by David Hughes
A man's strolls with his pooch prompt all manner of engaging reflections in this innovative book, writes Rachel Cooke
The fantastic truth of Calvin and Hobbes
Nevin Martell: Bill Watterson's work remains hilarious, and wildly inventive – but it also manages to be authentic in a way that very few cartoons ever are
Is it time for Climate Change: the Comic?
Jonathan Jones: Could graphic novels could be the perfect way to make sense of the recent IPCC controversy?