To mark the British Library's forthcoming exhibition of British comics, Guardian Weekend asked well-known authors to collaborate with graphic artists to create new works. Here, Gillian Flynn, author of the global bestseller Gone Girl, makes her comic debut with Dave Gibbons, the graphic story artist who drew Alan Moore's Watchmen comic series, in a new short story in which they look at what happens when parents turn vigilante

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