Maus Now: Selected Writing, edited by Hillary Chute review – the Maus that made history

While Philip Pullman and Adam Gopnik illuminate Art Spiegelman’s towering graphic novel, few others in this collection succeed in capturing its spark and sophistication

Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night review – dungeon-crawler drama

The latest outing from the multimedia franchise finds its heroes still trapped inside an RPG, where they learn lessons about cooperation

Why Don’t You Love Me? by Paul B Rainey – a marriage made in hell veers into the unknown

In this clever and savage tale about a horribly miserable couple, redemption comes with a sci-fi twist

Your Wish Is My Command by Deena Mohamed review – a spellbinding fantasy from Egypt

The young author’s debut graphic novel brings magic to modern Cairo in an imaginative story of grief, faith and urban life

That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond review – high-spirited anime

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 on

Graphic novelist Deena Mohamed: ‘People seem to love how Egyptian my work is’

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 Christie

Artist by Yeong-shin Ma – middle-aged men behaving badly

This darkly comic tale of three hapless and macho males fixes a boldly satirical eye on Korean society

The Quintessential Quintuplets review – sisters compete for love in charming anime

The premise of a high-school tutor forced to choose which of his students to marry could have been disastrous but this romantic fantasy film avoids ickiness

Terror in the Antarctic: graphic novels revisit the horror of the ‘worst journey in the world’

A century on from the publication of Cherry Apsley-Garrard’s classic book about Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition, a new graphic novel version revisits his terrible tale

The best comics and graphic novels of 2022

A pandemic stream-of‑consciousness, an artist in the making and a bird society on the moon are among this year’s favourites

Graphic short story: Midnight Feast by Rebecca Jones

Rebecca Jones has been named winner in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2022. This is her entry

Graphic short story: The Lift by Ed Firth

Ed Firth has been named joint runner-up in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2022. This is his entry

‘What will I spend the money on? Pens’: the winner of our graphic short story prize 2022

It was seventh time lucky for Rebecca Jones in this year’s Observer/Faber award for emerging cartoonists with her story of three girls camping out in a suburban garden

Graphic short story: Autumn 2014 by Michael Lightfoot

Michael Lightfoot has been named joint runner-up in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2022. This is his entry

Heartstopper author Alice Oseman: ‘If you don’t have sex and romance, you feel like you haven’t achieved’

The writer and illustrator on turning her ‘weird hobby’ into a bestselling YA series and Netflix hit, the importance of asexual representation and lessons from her fans on love bites