Comics Friday: the new digital-first, pay-what-you-want Lovecraftian YA detective comic from Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente Thom Dunn

bbc Catch a glimpse of the BBC's The City and the City Seamus Bellamy

novels An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn Thom Dunn

race Les gilets noirs: a French protest movement defending migrants' rights Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The lost audiobooks of Roger Zelazny reading the Chronicles of Amber Cory Doctorow

fonts Neo-Noire, the ultimate 1980s brush font Rob Beschizza

photography Nihon noir: Tom Blachford's gorgeous midnight shots of Tokyo Andrea James

science fiction Sorry, David Lynch's Dune sucks (or does it?) Rob Beschizza

graphic novels The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye – But just who is this great Singaporean comic artist? Christine Ro

offworld Become a vigilante superhero in this interactive tale about wealth inequality Laura Hudson

art Noir tongue-in-cheek photos of Batman action figure David Pescovitz

lethem The Ecstasist: A Conversation with the Novelist Jonathan Lethem Mark Dery