Hergé’s original artwork for Le Lotus Bleu was rejected as too expensive to reproduce in 1936 and given to editor’s son, who kept it in a drawer for decadesA rejected Tintin cover illustrated by Hergé that was gifted to a child and kept in a drawer for decades has set a new world record as the most...

Neal Kirby says he was appalled to see symbols of the patriotic action man among the crowds as Captain America is the antithesis of Donald Trump’The son of Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby has strongly condemned insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol last week wearing or brandishing...

In this latest instalment of the melancholy Paul series, our nerdish hero is lonely and adrift - as well as bleakly funnyIf the latest volume in the long-running, semi-autobiographical Paul series by the Quebecer cartoonist Michel Rabagliati is by far the saddest of these wonderful books, it’s also...

The Italian detective’s horror comic book adventures have sold 60m copies worldwide. So why is he not well-known in his fictional home?There is a breakfast cafe called Dylan Dog at 7 Craven Road, near Paddington station in west London. To most customers, it is simply another venue for coffee and...

Character named Tim Fox will take up the cowl in new comic series written by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John RidleyThe next hero to don Batman’s cowl will be a black man, named Tim Fox, DC Comics has revealed.The identity of the new Batman, estranged son of Bruce Wayne’s business manager Lucius...

The crowdfunding platform has boomed in the year of coronavirus, with indie mavericks joined by Hollywood royaltyComics have had a record-breaking year on Kickstarter. By October this year, backers had pledged 22m ( 16.5m) to comics projects, up from 17m by the same point in 2019. Since the...

In this exclusive extract from his new book, First Dog on the Moon’s intrepid enviro-heroes Binky, Pastry Person and Letitia travel to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where all is not well The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable EnviroTeens by First Dog on the Moon is out now through...

Paul Rainey has been named winner in the Observer Cape Comica graphic short story prize 2020. This is his entryWinner Paul Rainey talks to Rachel CookeRead runner-up Ellie Durkin’s The Worm here Continue reading...

Ellie Durkin has been named runner-up in the Observer Cape Comica graphic short story prize 2020. This is her entryRead Paul Rainey’s winning entry here Continue reading...

Loneliness, isolation and grief were common themes in this year’s Cape Observer Comica award for emerging cartoonists. But the winner made the judges laugh out loudRead winner Paul Rainey’s Similar to But Not hereRead runner-up Ellie Durkin’s The Worm hereIn Similar to But Not, the winner of this...

An award-winning tale of rival ice-cream sellers, a migrant Syrian family’s experiences of the US and a superhero in drag are just some of the highlightsIn a year in which Covid-19 and Brexit made borders an even hotter topic, some of the finest graphic novels told migrants’ stories. Welcome to the...

The prime minister and Dominic Cummings to feature in one-off edition BeanOLDBoris and Dom may have gone their separate ways but their crazy antics live on, and this week they may finally get their comeuppance. Not yet in real life but in the Beano at least.The 82-year-old comic will this week...

In his non-fiction graphic novel, the writer and comic-book artist takes us on a revealing exploration of the timeline of games - and why we play themVideo game histories tend to follow an achingly familiar structure. They start with Pong and the Atari years; they do the console wars between...

She was living on beans. Now she’s in LA writing Ms Marvel, the eagerly awaited TV series starring MCU’s first Muslim superhero. The writer talks about joyriding premiers and how to silence trollsBefore she became a Marvel screenwriter, Bisha K Ali was just another British standup struggling to get...

This remarkable South Korean tale illuminates the longings and desires of four invisible’ middle-aged women Lee Soyeon is a divorced woman in her 50s who works as a cleaner in a Seoul apartment building. Her life isn’t easy. Her bosses are mean, and her thirtysomething son, who still lives at...

Humanity discovers flame-grilled food in these pages from the new graphic adapation of the historian’s bestselling bookRead an interview with Yuval Noah Harari on adapting Sapiens Continue reading...

The historian and author on adapting his phenomenal bestseller into graphic format, why science needs storytellers, and how Covid fuels threats to humanityRead an extract from Sapiens: A Graphic HistoryWhen it was first suggested to Yuval Noah Harari that he appear as a character in the illustrated...

The gentle creator of a cartoon that became a far-right mascot talks about the years of litigation against the likes of Alex Jones, and his ambitious new book MindviscosityMatt Furie - a superhumanly gentle person, imagine Bob Ross with a skateboard - never wanted to be in the political limelight....

Forty years on from the first masterpiece in comic-book history’, the Pulitzer-winning cartoonist talks fame, switching styles and why he doesn’t want to draw TrumpEarly in the second volume of Maus - the graphic novel about the Holocaust that made Art Spiegelman’s reputation - he includes a...

On 15 October 1970, the under-construction West Gate Bridge, connecting Melbourne’s affluent eastern suburbs with its working-class west, collapsed. Thirty-five people died. It was Australia’s worst construction disaster. Over the past three years, academics Sarah Gregson from the University of New...