The very first stories humans ever recorded were built not of words, but of images: drawn in caves, mapped out in constellations, rendered through sculpture. Even after the development of written ...

Superheroes? We love them. But graphic novels are so much more than suitably masked, (usually) caped men. Yes, there's more to the world of this type of book than Spider-Man (we love you, Tom Holland!

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Most of us associate graphic novels with superheroes, thanks to the movies. That's fine and fair, but ...

In the winter of 1991, around the time of the first intifada, Joe Sacco, then a young cartoonist and journalist, arrived in Gaza with no particular aim except “to see what’s going on”. He suspected ...