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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

A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll review – haunting gothic tale with a heady whiff of Daphne du Maurier

The award-winning Canadian graphic novelist’s account of a young woman whose widower husband has a dark secret about his first wife is vividly drawn and masterfully plotted

Blistering barnacles! Tintin mystery in Brussels after bust of Hergé vanishes

The disappearance of a bust of the comic book artist in his Belgian birthplace was thought to be an act of decolonisation

The Guardian view on Heartstopper: a phenomenon that defines a generation

Editorial: Alice Oseman’s tale of queer romance is a global success story built on fans who want to feel good about themselves in tough times

Tributes pour in after Spanish cartoonist Francisco Ibáñez Talavera dies aged 87

The wildly popular author of the Mortadelo and Filemón books, which started life in 1958 and went on to entertain millions of children, continued working until soon before his death

Juliette by Camille Jourdy review – an exquisite story of love and loss in rural France

This gorgeous graphic novel about a woman escaping the pressures of Paris for her home town, and the complications that follow, is a masterpiece

‘The real deal’: young UK graphic artist nominated for five ‘comic book Oscars’

Unflinchingly depicting her battles with depression, Zoe Thorogood, a 24-year-old from Bradford, has scooped most nominations for this week’s Eisner Awards

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  • Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller review – a blend of social realism and gothic horror
  • Zeno Sworder’s hopeful and poetic Once I Was a Giant wins book of the year at Australian industry awards
  • Phantom Days by Angela O’Keeffe review – a rich, lyrical story told through the ‘eyes’ of a book
  • Quartet in Autumn review – Samantha Harvey gives new life to Barbara Pym tale of imminent retirement
  • Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly audiobook review – smart reflections on love, desire and power
  • Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher
  • The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson review – indie debut on the Women’s prize shortlist
  • Stephen Sondheim by Daniel Okrent review – a superb biography of the musical master
  • ‘Andy Burnham’s life was changed by the poet Tony Harrison’: writers discuss literature, politics and the 100 best novels
  • Astell and Woolf review – feminist writers unite and share a sherry in the afterlife
  • Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine?
  • Caroline Aherne by David Scott review – portrait of a comedy maverick
  • I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder review – romance for the terminally online
  • International Booker prize goes to novel originally written in Mandarin Chinese for the first time
  • John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills review – a handful of dust (and prawn cocktail crisps) in riff on TS Eliot
  • Children’s reading should prioritise pleasure over learning, says laureate
  • Sally Rooney to publish Hebrew translation of novel with BDS-compliant publisher
  • Offseason by Avigayl Sharp review – wry comedy of a frazzled teacher
  • If This Be Magic by Daniel Hahn review – how on earth do you translate Shakespeare?
  • ‘Capitalism has to become more humane’: a Stanford economist on big tech, power hoarding and democracy
  • ‘A book that should be read by all Australians’: Clare Wright wins book of the year at the NSW Literary awards
  • Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa review – lost voices from an Irish asylum
  • Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard review – the stories behind the Windrush scandal
  • How to become emotionally mature – at any age: ‘We often don’t realise the hurt we’re causing’
  • Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean review – a dashing retrospective for a cinematic titan
  • Rowing through the fog: how to increase your tolerance for uncertainty
  • What should win this year’s International Booker?
  • Clarissa review – Sophie Okonedo mesmeric as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway decamps to Nigeria
  • Propeller One-Way Night Coach review – John Travolta family plane fantasy is a short-haul joyride
  • ‘I’m so grateful I got to live these days’: A Ghost in the Throat author Doireann Ní Ghríofa on recovering from depression

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