Comics are not just superheroes and spandex – it can be public art, telling public stories, suggests HARRIET EARLE

The bard serenades the Diggers of Wigan and their festive followers

ALEXEI SAYLE speaks to Angus Reid about a lifetime of protest, how to hone political art – and what to do now

ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH, LEO BOIX and MARIA DUARTE review Just An Illusion, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Blue Film, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Runner

MARIA DUARTE recommends a nerve-wracking reconstruction of the 72 hours before the Normandy landings

WILL STONE samples the 20th anniversary atmosphere of this eclectic end-of-season indie festival

TONY BURKE plots the career of the legendary Senegalese band from Dakar nightclubs to Glastonbury

by Rina Malagayo Alluri

RITA DI SANTO contemplates two films about journalism that opened this year’s festival

Memory, inheritance and resistance: a compelling Brazilian memoir, Argentinian short stories about the Japanese diaspora, and the Chilean skies of childhood, with LEO BOIX

MARY CONWAY keeps up with the sheer pace of a drama about the terrible gap between sanitised reporting and real-life turmoil of race and gender

GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a world-class production King Lear that pits late feudalism against a rising bourgeoisie