Phil Hoad    In the s giant robot cartoons sparked a love affair with French fans including Emmanuel Macron now the country is the world s largest manga importer and home to a new Murakami filmYou might say that Vincent van Gogh was one of the first Japanese pop culture otaku geeks in Europe With

Rachel Cooke    An oozing discharge in the corridors of a five star hotel symbolises the corruption of the rich in the Swedish artist s mordant gothic debutFancy a break Then why not check into Spa Erik Svetoft s debut graphic novel OK so the sauna is best avoided the mineral bath will almost certainly bring

Ben Child    The Guardians of the Galaxy writer director and DC Studios CEO has turned his focus to the company s ultimate hero But will anyone ever fill Christopher Reeve s year old red boots The old DC adage with apologies to Voltaire always went that if Superman did not exist it would be necessary to

Rachel Cooke    Rich in detail this award winning debut explores the evolution of Spanish womanhood through drudgery dictatorship and liberationIn the illustrator Ana Penyas became the first woman to win Spain s national comic award for her debut graphic novel Estamos Todas Bien We re All Just Fine and

Ed Pilkington    Tesla and Twitter chief tweets that the media is racist after hundreds of newspapers drop Adams s comic stripElon Musk has deployed his million follower Twitter bullhorn to come to the rescue of a beleaguered cartoonist dumped by hundreds of newspapers across America for having delivered a

Edward Helmore and agencies    Once popular cartoon scrapped from hundreds of papers after Scott Adams calls Black people a hate group on his YouTube showThe comic strip Dilbert has been dropped from multiple US newspapers in response to racist comments by its creator Scott Adams who called Black Americans a hate group

Matthew Cantor    Bill Watterson to publish a sombre fable for grown ups after disappearing from public eye in On New Year s Eve six year old Calvin and his tiger Hobbes sledded off together for the last time It was the final strip in Bill Watterson s acclaimed comic Calvin and Hobbes which

Andrew Stafford    A new documentary captures the life and work of the infamous artist who has shocked appalled and delighted the city and who is lucky to have survivedGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailFred Negro has just knocked off his shift cleaning toilets One of the best cartoonists in the world

PA Media    Belgian cartoonist s black and white artwork from was used for the cover of Tintin in America An artwork by Tintin creator Hergé has set the world record for the most valuable original black and white drawing by the artist after selling at auction for more than m The drawing Tintin in

Rachel Cooke    While Philip Pullman and Adam Gopnik illuminate Art Spiegelman s towering graphic novel few others in this collection succeed in capturing its spark and sophisticationThis job has taught me to be wary of meeting my heroes but when I interviewed Art Spiegelman in New York in it really was

Andrew Gregory Health editor    Quizzes on comic s website give free advertising to well known high fat salt and sugar brands say researchersThe Beano the world s longest running weekly comic faces calls to stop promoting junk food after an investigation found many of its quizzes revolve around meals and snacks containing

Phil Hoad    The latest outing from the multimedia franchise finds its heroes still trapped inside an RPG where they learn lessons about cooperationOnline trolls squabblers and that scourge of MMORPG player killers come in for a severe ticking off in the snappily titled second film spin off of the light

Rachel Cooke    In this clever and savage tale about a horribly miserable couple by a former winner of the Observer s graphic short story prize redemption comes with a sci fi twistGood as it is I worry a little about this month s graphic novel Will readers stick with it long enough to reach the twist that

James Smart    The young author s debut graphic novel brings magic to modern Cairo in an imaginative story of grief faith and urban lifeThe three bottles sit in a cushioned box behind the instant noodles and cold drinks on offer at Shokry s Cairo convenience stall their ornate script and stamp of origin

PA Media    The artist is known for his drawings for the Bash Street Kids and Dennis the MenaceBeano cartoonist David Sutherland who drew some of the UK s most loved comic strips has died aged The artist is known for his drawings for the Bash Street Kids and Dennis the Menace Continue reading

Phil Hoad    This playful tale about an ogre samurai a poisoned queen and a demonic pool of talking slime has a lot of confusing lore for the uninitiated to catch up onThis high spirited anime feels like having the contents of a Dungeons amp Dragons manual screamed at you by your year old nephew after a

Rachel Cooke    The author of the hit Cairo set novel set to be a future classic on going viral with her first web comic and growing up reading Enid Blyton and Agatha ChristieWhen Deena Mohamed tells me that her grandmother keen to encourage her love of art used to let her draw on the backs of old cigarette

Rachel Cooke    This darkly comic tale of three hapless and macho males fixes a boldly satirical eye on Korean society It is not enough to succeed said Gore Vidal Others must fail In his darkly funny new book Artist the Korean cartoonist Yeong shin Ma puts this notion centre stage his three male

Joel Snape    I had spotted the wrestler mask in a tiny place in Tokyo years before but couldn t afford it and I always regretted itI first saw Tiger Mask in in a tiny pro wrestling shop near Tokyo s Korakuen Hall the sort of place that has autographs in the stairwell and posters from obscure s

Agence France-Presse in Paris    Author says he will remain faithful to the characters in th volume of series due out next yearThe French comic book series Asterix will turn a new page for its forthcoming th volume with a new writer chosen to pen next year s instalment the publisher has said The French novelist and comic