Women speak out about Warren Ellis: ‘Full and informed consent was impossible’

Scores of women are publishing details of their relationships with the Transmetropolitan writer, who they say offered mentorship in exchange for sexual contact. But they don’t want him cancelled - they want a conversation

Paying the Land by Joe Sacco review – a triumph of empathy

The painful history of the Northwestern Territory’s indigenous people takes the celebrated cartoonist away from AK47s and mortar shells, and into a different kind of war

The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge review – powerfully strange

A gritty and humorous postwar Japan is depicted in these early works by the influential manga cartoonist

Illustrator Albert Uderzo drew me in to Asterix’s world with deftness and care

The way Uderzo’s comic book panels progressed from rudimentary was an important lesson for a child

Asterix creator Albert Uderzo dies at 92

French comic-book artist, who created Asterix with the writer René Goscinny, dies at home ‘from a heart attack unrelated to the coronavirus’

On Ajayi Crowther Street by Elnathan John and Àlàbá Ònájìn review – graphic novel

Family dramas, feuds, death and disgrace in a Lagos-set morality tale

Graphic novel New Kid wins prestigious Newbery Medal

Jerry Craft’s story exploring ‘friendship, race, class and bullying in a fresh manner’ is the first graphic novel to win the long-running American children’s award

Watchmen is by far the best adaptation of the comic – but should fans watch it?

HBO’s take on the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons comic succeeds where all others have failed, but it is yet another DC project made without Moore’s approval

The Tempest by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill – it’s been a blast

The last instalment in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series is dense, dizzying and satisfying

Aivali: A Story of Greeks and Turks in 1922 by Soloup review – a moving graphic novel

The traumas of the Turks and Greeks forced to flee their homes a century ago are drawn with moving simplicity and speak clearly to today’s refugee crisis

DC drops Batman image after claims it supports Hong Kong unrest

Picture trailing new Frank Miller comic showed Batwoman throwing a molotov cocktail against the legend: ‘The future is young’

Alan Moore drops anarchism to champion Labour against Tory ‘parasites’

Comics legend, who has voted only once in his life, makes passionate appeal to help defeat ‘rapacious’ rightwing party in general election

‘I’m amazed to be in this company’: the winner of our graphic short story prize 2019

This year Edo Brenes’s beautiful tale, based on his Costa Rican grandparents’ lives, instantly won the judges’ hearts and minds

Graphic short story: Four Hands

Jessika Green shares the runners-up prize in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2019. This is her entry

Graphic short story: The Devil’s Deal

Dominic Linton and Fred Morris, along with Jessika Green, are runners-up in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2019. This is their entry