WILL STONE samples the 20th anniversary atmosphere of this eclectic end-of-season indie festival
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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
A WAR between socialist and capitalist factions of the human diaspora has finally been ended with an act of genocidal savagery, in Gareth L Powell's Embers of War (Titan, £7.99), the opening volume of a three-part space opera.
Disgusted by her role in the crime, sentient warship Trouble Dog defects to a non-sectarian, apolitical organisation that is dedicated to rescuing the crews of spaceships in distress.
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Star cartoonist MALC MCGOOKIN finds lessons for today in the punch, and the economy of line, of an extraordinary generation of illustrators
JOHN GREEN welcomes a remarkable study of Mozambique’s most renowned contemporary artist