From Matt Groening's pre-Simpson's strip to Michelangelo's ceiling and Hogarth's social commentary, artists have been reinventing the cartoon for centuries, writes Jonathan Jones

Cinema has always liked telling a good life story, and all kinds of biography – from the humblest to the starriest – have been given a filmic going-over. The Guardian and Observer's critics pick the 10 best in a very crowded field

Cinema, as Jean-Luc Godard wrote, is truth 24 times a second. Documentaries both prove and disprove the point; but the truth is their strongest weapon. Here, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best

Six leading illustrators choose their favourite living graphic novelist

Daniel Kalder: Some of his work is pretty striking, but he's hardly worthy of his current status as a god of the literary underground

Cartoonist Crumb's vision of the first book of the Bible said to be a 'complex, even subversive narrative that calls for a re-examination of its role in our culture'