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 

Photographer Jack Luke records the way in which bings, once little more than a dumping ground for industry, have been reclaimed by nature and the community.

Heathcote Williams has a fearsome back catalogue spanning five decades as an activist, writer and poet. His latest works are typically acute, essential polemics, writes Neil Cooper

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

To achieve the democratic control which lies at the heart of demands for independence,  we must develop a credible currency plan – and soon,  writes Robin McAlpine

As Candy Opera release their debut album after 35 years in the wilderness, Neil Cooper talks about life in the 1980s with Liverpool’s great lost band

A magnificently dark tale of obsession. By Vhairi Slaven

By Anna Viceconti