Read Understanding Comics

John Berger on how oil painting and advertising teach us to look; the BBC series as a book.

David Byrne on why music sounds the way the room lets it.

Harari's human story redrawn as a comic; the same argument in pictures.

Retired vigilantes in a 1985 with Nixon still president; the graphic novel that made comics grow up.

A 55-year-old Batman comes out of retirement to fight Superman; Frank Miller's 1986 reinvention.

Bruce Wayne's first year and Jim Gordon's; Miller and Mazzucchelli's crime comic.

The Joker's possible origin and Barbara Gordon shot; one bad day.

Superman has a year to live and does twelve impossible things; Morrison and Quitely.