‘It would be amazing if this led to something’: Anna Readman, winner of our graphic short story prize 2023

Dancing Queen, Readman’s meditation on a lost friend, won this year’s Observer/Faber graphic short story prize. Now she’s glad she gave up the day job…

Graphic short story: Safe Passage by Candy Gourlay

Candy Gourlay has been named runner-up in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2023. This is her entry

Keith Giffen obituary

Acclaimed comic writer and artist who created such popular characters as Blue Beetle and Lobo over his 50-year career

Keith Giffen, comic book artist and writer, dies aged 70

Creator of Rocket Raccoon, star of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie series, and the DC superhero Blue Beetle died after suffering a stroke on Monday

Monica by Daniel Clowes review – pitch-perfect portraits of an ever scarier US

A prickly misfit connects nine dark tales in this sad and sharply funny new book from the author of Ghost World

Pratchett power: from lost stories to new adaptations, how the late Discworld author lives on

It’s 40 years since The Colour of Magic hit the shelves. As newly unearthed short stories are published, fans and friends celebrate the late author’s enduring legacy

Monica by Daniel Clowes review – a thrilling kaleidoscopic journey

A woman sets out to uncover the truth about her mother’s disappearance in this genre-hopping celebration of visual storytelling

A murdered Argentinian writer’s comic finds a new audience – and far-right haters

Héctor Oesterheld and his family were murdered under the military dictatorship. As Netflix adapts his beloved El Eternauta, his literary legacy is dragged into the culture wars

Bobby Joseph becomes first person of colour appointed UK comics laureate

Comic book author and graphic novelist wants to spend time in the role tackling industry’s lack of diversity

‘Insulting’: Beano fans pour scorn on UK government advert

Anger at ‘created in London’ tagline on poster of Dennis the Menace, who was made by a cartoonist in Dundee

Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki review – a blissful ode to female friendship and New York

The award-winning cousins beautifully capture the magic and misery of the Big Apple through the tumultuous experiences of three young women

‘Used as dartboards’: rare British war comic art rescued from bins, skips and floods

Original drawings and paintings from 60s and 70s comics such as Hotspur and Commando will feature in an exhibition in Oxfordshire

‘It’s a sickness’: Chuck D on his new graphic novel and the ‘madness’ of US gun culture

The Public Enemy frontman talks about why he returned to his first love of art to create a book about the violence dividing his country

The Killer review – terrific David Fincher thriller about a philosophising hitman

Michael Fassbender is perfect in the main role of a yoga-loving assassin who discourses on everything from morality to the Smiths

The First Slam Dunk review – basketball is the universe in resplendent hit anime

Takehiko Inoue’s classic manga spinoff has magnificent on-court scenes, but doesn’t quite sink the backstory