Talk time
Chris Donald co-founded Viz. His new book, Rude Kids, charts the comic's meteoric rise in the 80s.
No more heroes
Mr Incredible quits! As reality increasingly resembles cartoons, the worn-out superhero is leaving the world-saving to Bush and Arnie. But there was always something fishy about those capes...
Viz gives Fat Slags the elbow
8am: Viz magazine has axed the Fat Slags, one of its most infamous cartoon strips, after their big screen adaptation was branded the worst ever British film. By John Plunkett.
John Brown sells contract publishing arm for £20m
John Brown, head of the publishing empire that launched Viz in the UK, is to pocket nearly £20m after selling out to a private equity firm. By Dominic Timms.
With just one puff, he was a superhero
Daniel Clowes upends the superhero genre in the latest instalment of the Eightball series, The Death Ray.
Stand-up comics
Grown-up graphic novels addressing issues of loneliness, alienation and heart-breaking human failure. And not a caped crusader in sight, says Roger Sabin.
Inside a city of war and whispers
Joe Sacco returns to Sarajevo on the trail of the ghosts of the Bosnian war in The Fixer
If Superman had been a Soviet hero…
Mark Millar imagines what might have happened if the infant from Krypton had landed in the Ukraine rather than Kansas in Superman - Red Son
After the 30-year struggle, a heroic victory
Interview: Paul Levitz, president, DC Comics.
Send me your dreams
Iain Emsley enjoys new tales from one of DC Comics' greatest characters in The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
Slick on the draw
A new ICA exhibition gives the graphic novel a chance to win over those who doubt it is an adult form
Eyewitness in Gaza
Joe Sacco's comic-book format provides an unlikely but compelling insight into the Palestinian experience in Palestine