Isabelle Stroud salutes the comic creators fashioning a new wave of female characters

Cyanotypes by Eleanor Buffam

A true story by Carolyn Roberts

By Phil Wilson

By Gerry Stewart 

Artist Philip Braham discusses his photographic series which recalls an old master and looks at where photography as a medium is heading

The inspiring story of Preston’s rebirth highlights some telling lessons and limits of localism, writes James Foley

We publish original art and invite writers to submit stories inspired by the work

Peter Greenaway’s story about a venerated Soviet director is visually pleasing but hilariously bad, writes David Melville

Lisa Locascio wakes up to the full, painful horror of the Trump ascendancy

Did a percipient Scouse maverick secure Scott Walker’s place in pop history? asks Neil Cooper

By Hannah Sutherland

By Anna Viceconti