Honestly brilliant

Clearly, cartoonist David Heatley is a confessional soul. Having been a solid presence in comics anthologies for years, Heatley's debut collection My Brain is Hanging Upside Down showcases a remarkable brand of unflinchingly honest autobiography. How honest? Heatley's alarmingly frank depiction of his sexual history (dating back to kindergarten) certainly sets the bar high, closely followed by a blunt examination of his own racism, his dysfunctional parents and the baffling logic of his own dreams.

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Life, death and piss

Here is some of the most sophisticated and deeply excessive painting around. It's by UK artist Nigel Cooke, whose highly crafted technique looks like a cross between Jake and Dinos Chapman, Leonardo da Vinci and a stoned Walt Disney. Cooke's take on life, death and modernist architecture may not be to everyone's taste, but it's extremely well done, and the artist is up there with the best.

Corporate art

The raw material of Martin Westwood's work is the prosaic stuff of old-time office admin: paper clips, corporate brochures, calendars, map pins and filing cards. So far, so boring. But upon these the artist breathes his imaginative fancy to create life in the form of sculptures and images. Although they look a bit like critiques of commerce, they aren't really. Westwood does not seem to be particularly anti-corporate or even ethically minded, but more into poeticised moods.

Fashion photography double bill

As London Fashion Week springs into action, it's little wonder that galleries are following suit with a slew of exhibitions of fashion photography. Two eye-catching shows are Documenting Style and 50 Years Of Italian Style. The former is from the photojournalism agency Magnum and makes a good fist of their less well-known flirtation with the world of mode and models. Images range from 1940s prim to the sultry work of Ferdinando Scianna and Bruce Gilden.

Judged by his covers

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